WONDERLAND

If Shirley Jackson wrote THE SHINING, it might look like WONDERLAND, in which a mother must become a protector when unnatural forces threaten her family's new and improved life in a rural farmhouse. At once a family drama and a horror story, this is a thrilling, page-turning read that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

A mother must become a protector when unnatural forces threaten her family's new and improved life in a rural farmhouse. The Bennett family -- artist parents and two precocious children -- leave their familiar urban surroundings for a new home in rural upstate New York. They're an hour from the nearest city, a mile from the nearest house, and everyone has their own room for the very first time. Shaw, the father, even gets his own painting studio, now that he and his wife Orla, a retired dancer, have agreed that it's his turn to pursue his passion.

But none of the Bennetts expect what lies waiting in the lovely woods, where secrets run dark and deep. Orla must finally find a way to communicate with -- not just resist -- this unknown entity that is coming to her family, calling to them from the land, in the earth, beneath the trees ... and in their minds.

Zoje Stage is a former filmmaker with a penchant for the dark and suspenseful. Her debut novel Baby Teeth was published in 2018 in 10 countries. She lives in Pittsburgh.