Mercedes M. Yardley’s New Novel ‘Darling’ Unleashes A Killer On A Small Town
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
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