The Shadow Children (Tellwell Talent)
by Bonnie Randall
Release date August 1, 2026.
Paranormal mystery lovers rejoice! Randall takes us back into the world of her best-selling The Shadow Collector and gives us insight into the past of some of those characters, as well as the ramifications of horrifying secrets revealed. It starts with an infant’s skeleton found where the local kids hid in the woods to drink beer and party, near a high school that feels, well, haunted.
Petticoat Hawke, known as “Pretty,” is still not over the love of her life getting someone else pregnant and “doing the right thing” and marrying the father of his child. She runs a small business and is the surrogate mom to a bunch of high-schoolers that work there. She may be married to someone else, but they are separated and have been for years.
Her former fiancée, Joe Brophy, has had several children with the rather abrasive high-school-mistake mother of his child. He’s still getting over Pretty, and over the forced estrangement with his high-school best friend Vincent Halsom. Everyone thinks Vince was a monster, including most of his adult children and all of the residents of Vestmere, B.C.–they found bodies piled into a sealed off part of Halsom’s occult-filled home. And where are all the psychic children he trained? What actually happened?
It all unfold into reveal after reveal until the truths kill some and traumatize them all.
Very tightly written. Randall has another winner.
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