From Bram Stoker Award®-Winning author, Mercedes M. Yardley comes the new novel Darling, about a troubled woman who returns to her malevolent Louisiana hometown, suspicions of a serial killer arise after her daughter goes missing and other gruesome discoveries are made.
Darling centers on Cherry LaRouche who escaped the claws of Darling, Louisiana at sixteen. When she is forced to return after her mother’s death, Cherry and her children move back into her childhood home where the walls whisper and something sinister skitters across the roof at night. While Cherry tries to settle back into a town where evil spreads like an infection, the bodies of several murdered children turn up. When Cherry’s own daughter goes missing, she’s forced to confront the true monsters of Darling.
A southern gothic with the notes of nightmare and whimsy that are the hallmark of Yardley’s writing, Darling is a story of motherhood. Like most mothers, Cherry LaRouche will do anything to keep her beautifully broken son, Jonah— inspired by Yardley’s real-life special needs son—and her tiny daughter, Daisy, safe from the evils of the town.
Mercedes M. Yardley is a Bram Stoker Award®-winning author who also penned Beautiful Sorrows, the Stabby Award-winning Apocalyptic Montessa and Nuclear Lulu: A Tale of Atomic Love, Pretty Little Dead Girls, and Detritus in Love. She won the prestigious Bram Stoker Award® for her novella Little Dead Red and was a Bram Stoker Award® nominee for her short story “Loving You Darkly.”
Darling is set to be released by Black Spot Books on August 23, 2022. For more on Mercedes M. Yardley please visit the author’s official website. Black Spot Books is a women-owned, author-centric traditional press specializing in award-winning and bestselling speculative fiction, dark fantasy, and horror. Learn more about Black Spot Books at http://www.blackspotbooks.com.
