THE HAUNTING OF VELKWOOD

From Bram Stoker Award-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood friends who miraculously survive the night everyone in their suburban hometown turned into ghosts - perfect for fans of Yellowjackets.

Twenty years ago, three childhood friends return to college on a Sunday night after spending the weekend at home with their families in their suburban development on Velkwood street. That was the night the entire neighborhood became a ghost. Talitha Velkwood has avoided anything to do with the tragedy, drifting from one job to another, never settling anywhere or with anyone, feeling as trapped by her past as if she was still there in the small town she so desperately wanted to escape from. When a new researcher tracks her down and offers to pay her to come back to enter the vicinity, Talitha claims she's just doing it for the money. Of all the crackpot theories over the years, no one has discovered what happened the night Talitha, her estranged, former best friend Brett, and Grace, escaped their homes twenty years ago. Will she finally get the answers she's been looking for all these years, or is this just another dead end?

Gwendolyn Kiste is the Bram Stoker Award--winning author of The Rust Maidens, And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe, Pretty Marys All in a Row, The Invention of Ghosts, Boneset & Feathers, and Reluctant Immortals. Her works have been huge critical successes and her novel The Rust Maidens received a rave review from Publishers Weekly stating: "Kiste focuses on demonstrating the indignities young women may suffer when they defy society's rules defining what they're allowed to be... the Rust Maidens' story is very much worth reading." The Velkwood Girls is equally compelling but will appeal to a wider, more commercial audience looking for an exceptional mystery novel.