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
- Author: Helena O’Connor
- ISBN: 978-1-923382-13-8 trade paperback
- ISBN: 978-1-923382-14-5 ebook
- RRP: US$11.99 trade paperback US$5.99 ebook
- Publisher: IFWG Publishing International
- Horror short novel
- Adult
- 120 pages – paperback English
- Binding: Perfect bound
- Dimensions: 6″ x 9″
- Purchase ebook or trade paperback here or through our distributor (IPG Books)
- Key Words: Horror, slasher, old-school horror, strong females
- Publication Date: April 2025
- Distribution: World-wide through IPG (IPG specific in North America, New South Books (partner) in Australia/New Zealand.
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