Folklore. Myths. Monsters lurking in the night. This book caught me off guard in the best way, as up until near the very end I had no idea what was going on or where the story was heading. Filled with unreliable narrators, conspiracy and danger around every corner, and women going missing - this book is not to be missed.

I believe this book is best gone into completely blind, as I have when I read this. We follow Mina, a psychiatrist, dealing with her own unrelenting OCD as she works to care for her patients. When she suddenly gets an email from a friend she hasn’t seen for 12 years asking for help, she is thrust into a world of danger and folklore as she has to fight to save her friend from whatever sickness is afflicting her.

Told from Mina’s perspective, with occasional flashes of another timeline going on in the background, we slowly piece together everything going on in this book in a fight against time for saving her friend. I really enjoyed the multiple moving parts used to tell this story, using small moments of scenes that had already happened to help tell a more complete story. However, it’s not until near the very end that we can finally see how everything actually fits together into one single cohesive puzzle.

This book is perfect for anyone who loves horror and mystery, and enjoys it when a story gives you all the pieces you need to solve the puzzle - but waits until the very end until you (the reader) can put all these pieces together. I finished this novel in one sitting, and I’ll absolutely be looking into anything else written by this author.

A huge thank you to the author, NetGalley, and Harlequin Trade Publishing for providing this e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.