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She Sleeps in Shadows - Grief Opens the Door & What Follows Isn't Human
Paperback
Series: Deadlight, Book 1
Publisher: Beebop Publishing Group
Published: Aug 1 2025
Pages: 316
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A modern Gothic thriller of obsession, inheritance, and the ancient hunger that never dies.
When aspiring artist Juliet Warren inherits her reclusive great-aunt's crumbling Victorian home in the quiet Texas town of Georgetown, she imagines a fresh start-a chance to reconnect with her roots and bury the guilt that's haunted her for years. But the moment she crosses the threshold, something begins to stir beneath the floorboards. The house doesn't just creak. It remembers.
Drawn to an unfinished painting in the attic-one that seems to change when she's not looking-Juliet uncovers a series of journals left behind by her ancestor, Lucinda: an enigmatic woman whose final days were consumed by madness, isolation... and something far worse. The entries speak of a spiral. A pattern. A presence that circles and returns. A hunger that never left.
When Eden, a fiercely loyal former librarian with a troubled past, joins Juliet in deciphering the house's dark history, they begin to piece together a legacy of women who vanished without explanation-each marked by obsession, seduction, and the same whispered name.
As a shadowy figure known only as Juliana emerges from memory into flesh, Juliet's grip on reality begins to unravel. The spiral isn't just in the pages of Lucinda's journal. It's in the soil. In the walls. In her blood.
Now, Juliet must choose: abandon the past-or embrace a dark inheritance that may destroy her... or awaken something inside her that was never meant to sleep.
Perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson, Tananarive Due, Sarah Waters, and V. Castro, She Sleeps in Shadows reimagines the classic vampire myth through a contemporary Southern Gothic lens. It's a story of queer love wrapped in dread, female rage woven into legacy, and supernatural horror rooted not in fantasy-but in memory, obsession, and the wounds women are taught to silence.
Gripping, lyrical, and deeply unsettling, this is not a vampire story about monsters.
It's a story about what happens when the monster is already inside you... and it finally wants out.
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