The Dolls of Ose

Edinburgh, 1923.

Seven-year-old Helena Scott has everything a child could wish for: a peaceful home, loving parents and five beautiful porcelain dolls purchased from an unremarkable salesman.

Mia is kind. Catherine always knows what to do. Jane understands the importance of secrets. Emma knows who deserves to be punished.

And Mara wants to see blood.

Only Helena can hear their voices. At first, they offer friendship and comfort. Then they begin making suggestions-small cruelties disguised as games, followed by terrible accidents that no one could possibly blame on an innocent little girl.

As death follows Helena from her home to the corridors of St. John's Primary School, her mother, Jennifer, can no longer ignore the darkness gathering around her daughter. But the child she is desperate to protect is disappearing, replaced by something secretive, remorseless and increasingly hungry for violence.

The dolls have found their perfect owner.

And they are not finished with her yet.