The Hills
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 7 2025
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When CJ and Nicole Dalton move into the glass-and-concrete dream home of Crestline Estates, it feels like deliverance. After years of struggle, success has finally carried them out of their cramped apartment and into a canyon enclave of manicured perfection, breathtaking views, and neighbors with smiles as polished as their Bentleys. Nicole is pregnant, hopeful, and determined to believe they've earned this life.
But from their first night, something is wrong. A doorknob tested in the dark. A missing-person flyer that vanishes from the community forum. A welcome basket with gifts chosen more like omens than tokens. The Hills are beautiful-but they are never quiet.
As the Daltons are drawn into the glittering orbit of the Belgraves-the family who built the canyon's empire-Nicole begins to sense a deeper truth: the residents are bound by rituals older than the estates themselves, and her unborn child has become the focus of something vast, patient, and inescapable.
Soon, whispers in the walls give way to tunnels beneath the earth, secret ledgers, and a revelation too terrifying to ignore: success in the Hills always comes with a price.
Now Nicole must protect her baby from the neighbors who call themselves family-and from the husband who may have already struck a bargain she can't undo.
Glamorous and suffocating, chilling and compulsively readable, The Hills blends psychological horror, occult mystery, and suburban thriller into a haunting tale of what it really costs to have it all.
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