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The Children of Mercy Road (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
HorrorMystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Black Bell Books
Published: Apr 25 2026
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The village did not lose its children. It gave them away.
When Nora Keane returns to the rural Irish village of Carrigfalla after her mother's death, she expects grief, old memories, and the painful work of clearing the family cottage. What she finds instead is an old biscuit tin hidden beneath folded blankets, filled with cassette tapes labelled with the names of children who vanished from the village across decades.
One tape bears the name of her little brother, Seán.
Seán disappeared in 1998 when he was six years old. The village said he wandered into the bog. Nora grew up believing she failed him.
Then she plays the tape.
Seán's voice comes through the static, still six years old, still frightened, still waiting.
At the end of Mercy Road stands an abandoned farmhouse the villagers refuse to speak of. Its windows have been dark for decades. Now one of them is lit.
As Nora searches for the truth, she uncovers a horror older than her family and deeper than local superstition. Mercy House does not simply haunt Carrigfalla. It has been fed by it.
For generations, the village has survived by burying names, hiding records, and pretending certain children were lost by accident.
But Seán was never the child Mercy House wanted.
Nora was.
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