The Keeper of the Key by Nicole Willson, Cover Reveal!

The Keeper of the Key is a bit of a departure from the last couple of books I’ve had published. For one thing, it’s actually set in the present day. It’s also my first YA novel. I think of it as a cross between Bluebeard and The Haunting of Hill House, with a younger protagonist than I’ve written before. I got the idea for the book when I started thinking about a retelling of Bluebeard, but set in the present day and with a main character who can’t call on anyone to save her and has to rescue herself. And what if the house she lives in has its own role to play?

Cho-hyun Kim’s beautiful work really captures the essence of this story, and I hope people who enjoyed my previous works Tidepool and The Shadow Dancers of Brixton Hill will enjoy it. 

Back cover synopsis: There are a thousand things sixteen-year-old Rachel would rather do than upend her life to move into Morgan House, an old, run-down mansion owned by her mom’s boyfriend, Geoff.

But when her mother announces they’re relocating to St. Mary, Virginia to live with him, Rachel’s cut off from her friends and life as she knows it. St. Mary is a remote, lonely place, and the best thing about it is Nick, a guy she knows is worth keeping when he takes her to a cemetery on their first date.

Rachel struggles to get along with Geoff and his mile-long list of annoying house rules—in particular, his bizarre insistence that she stay out of the basement. But something in Morgan House plays by its own rules. At night, an unknown force pulls Rachel down to that forbidden cellar, showing her harrowing visions of a strangely familiar man lurking in the shadows. When a sudden tragedy strikes her family, those visions become more frequent—and more violent.

The dead issue urgent warnings, and if Rachel doesn’t heed them, she’ll become part of Morgan House forever.

From the author of the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Tidepool comes a chilling new gothic horror novel that will sink into your bones.

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Bio: Nicole Willson’s debut novel Tidepool (Parliament House Press) was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award and the Ladies of Horror Fiction Award. A Spanish translation of the novel is available from Dilatando Mentes Editorial. Her novella The Shadow Dancers of Brixton Hill is out with Cemetery Gates Media and her YA horror novel The Keeper of the Key will be coming from Parliament House Press in November 2024. Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies by Cemetery Gates Media and Death Knell Press. Nicole is an active member of the HWA, and she lives with her husband and a rotating cast of cats in Northern Virginia.

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