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IFWG is very pleased to announce the release of Helena O’Connor’s new horror novel, Willow Close. “Helena has been published by IFWG before,” said Gerry Huntman, Managing Director, “notably her short fiction for our anthology, Killer Creatures Down Under. We were impressed with her writing and were very happy to pick up her atmospheric novel. We certainly were not disappointed, and are looking forward to share this piece with the reading public.”

Greg Chapman did a wonderful job with the cover.

Kess Hawkins just wants to play video games, eat pizza rolls, and hang out with her cat. But when a determined journalist comes asking about Kess’ past, she is drawn into a thirty-year old mystery. A childhood photo sparks Kess’s memories of an abandoned orphanage called Willow Close, as well as a brother she never knew she had and a boy she once shared a bond with despite his dark and troubled history. Meanwhile, a serial killer dubbed the Family Man is working his way down the coast and Kess’s home of New Haven lies directly in his path.

Willow Close is an old-school slasher with two kick-ass, contemporary heroines. A good old-fashioned mystery wrapped in a creepy old orphanage, with cosmic horror, a monstrous killer, and several lovely cats.

Willow Close is now globally released and available in ebook and print form from all good stores, both online and bricks and mortar. Note that print stock availability will be delayed to Australia and New Zealand for a few months.