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Such a Pretty Smile - Kristi DeMeester

By Kristi DeMeester

Release Date: 2022-01-18

Genre: Horror

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One of Goodreads Most Popular Horror of 2022

Named one of Esquire's Best Horror of the Year

"Brutal and shocking." - emily m. danforth

ā€œRazor-sharp. This one will cut you.ā€ - Christopher Golden

In this biting and electrifying novel from bold horror talent Kristi DeMeester, thereā€™s something out there thatā€™s murdering young womenā€”until an overwhelmed mother and her secretive daughter refuse to live without answers any longer.

Heā€™s known as The Cur, and he leaves no traceā€”except for the victims he most viciously slays every fifteen years. Young women who refuse to conform and donā€™t know when to shut up.

2019: Thirteen-year-old Lila Sawyer has secrets she canā€™t share with anyone. But when young women around her begin dying, wild speculation ensues. Soon Lila feels haunted from within, terrorized by a delicious evil that shows her how to find her voiceā€”until sheā€™s in danger for using it.

2004: Caroline Sawyer sees dogs everywhere that no one else seems to notice. As these snarling, teeth-bared delusions begin to take shape in the sculptures she makes in a trance-like state, her fiancĆ© is convinced she needs help from a professional. But Carolineā€™s past is a dark cellar, filled with repressed memories and a lurking horror that others around her canā€™t understand.

As past and present demons converge, Caroline and Lila must chase the source of the unrelenting, oppressive power to its core. Brilliantly paced and unapologetically fierce, Such a Pretty Smile will make you want to stand up and rage at everyone who ever told you to shut up and smile pretty.

"Compulsive and horrifyingly entertaining." - Liz Nugent

Such a Pretty Smile - Kristi DeMeester

By Kristi DeMeester

Release Date: 2022-01-18

Genre: Horror

4 (15 ratings)
Read Download
One of Goodreads Most Popular Horror of 2022

Named one of Esquire's Best Horror of the Year

"Brutal and shocking." - emily m. danforth

ā€œRazor-sharp. This one will cut you.ā€ - Christopher Golden

In this biting and electrifying novel from bold horror talent Kristi DeMeester, thereā€™s something out there thatā€™s murdering young womenā€”until an overwhelmed mother and her secretive daughter refuse to live without answers any longer.

Heā€™s known as The Cur, and he leaves no traceā€”except for the victims he most viciously slays every fifteen years. Young women who refuse to conform and donā€™t know when to shut up.

2019: Thirteen-year-old Lila Sawyer has secrets she canā€™t share with anyone. But when young women around her begin dying, wild speculation ensues. Soon Lila feels haunted from within, terrorized by a delicious evil that shows her how to find her voiceā€”until sheā€™s in danger for using it.

2004: Caroline Sawyer sees dogs everywhere that no one else seems to notice. As these snarling, teeth-bared delusions begin to take shape in the sculptures she makes in a trance-like state, her fiancĆ© is convinced she needs help from a professional. But Carolineā€™s past is a dark cellar, filled with repressed memories and a lurking horror that others around her canā€™t understand.

As past and present demons converge, Caroline and Lila must chase the source of the unrelenting, oppressive power to its core. Brilliantly paced and unapologetically fierce, Such a Pretty Smile will make you want to stand up and rage at everyone who ever told you to shut up and smile pretty.

"Compulsive and horrifyingly entertaining." - Liz Nugent

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