The Butcher

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What to expect

A debut small-town horror novel that is a chilling blend of Shirley Jackson meets Devil’s Day by way of Westworld

When Lady Mae turns eighteen, she’ll inherit her mother’s ghastly job as the Butcher: dismembering Settlement Five’s guilty criminals as payment for their petty crimes. But then their leaders, known as the Deputies, come to Lady Mae’s house, and there in the living room they murder her mother for refusing to butcher a child.

Within twenty-four hours, now alone in the world, Lady Mae begins her gruesome job. But a chance meeting years later puts her face to face with the Deputy that murdered her mother. Now Lady Mae must choose: Will she flee and start another life in the desolate mountains, forever running? Or will she seek vengeance for her mother’s death even if it kills her?

Critics Review

“Savage beauty, unrelenting violence, and unbreakable love crash together in this powerful and hypnotic novel”

Livia Llewellyn, author of Furnace

“Immersive, original, and unflinching.”

Rachel Harrison, author of Such Sharp Teeth

“Intelligent, immersive horror.”

Ally Wilkes, author of All the White Spaces

“Psychologically claustrophobic, and a harrowing debut.”

Hailey Piper, author of Queen of Teeth

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