Ghost Mother

More than anything in the world, Lilly Bly wants to be a mother. Sensing that the grand, yet dilapidated mansion located in the small Wisconsin town that she and her husband are relocating to will somehow lead to future motherhood, she convinces him to purchase it, despite their ever-increasing debts. However, Lilly begins to experience strange and disconcerting phenomena in the house, leading her to discover the mansion’s grim past as the site of a triple murder-suicide 50 years ago. Her hunt for the truth about her home’s terrible history becomes an obsession that, along with past traumas and her extreme desperation for a family, threatens to consume her entirely. In this fast-paced novel, Dwyer delivers evocative gothic horror brimming with heartbreak, loss, longing, and familial trauma. Readers will race towards the novel’s shocking conclusion, which will leave them rethinking what is real or delusion and what it means to be truly haunted.