'Compulsive and horrifyingly entertaining. Brilliantly paced and unapologetically fierce, Such a Pretty Smile will make you want to stand up and rage at everyone who ever told you to shut up and smile pretty. But Caroline's past is a dark cellar, filled with repressed memories and a lurking horror that others around her can't understand.Īs past and present demons converge, Caroline and Lila must chase the source of the unrelenting, oppressive power to its core. As these snarling, teeth-bared delusions begin to take shape in the sculptures she makes in a trance-like state, her fiancé is convinced she needs help from a professional. Soon Lila feels haunted from within, terrorized by a delicious evil that shows her how to find her voice-until she's in danger for using it.Ģ004: Caroline Sawyer sees dogs everywhere that no one else seems to notice. But when young women around her begin dying, wild speculation ensues. Young women who refuse to conform and don't know when to shut up.Ģ019: Thirteen-year-old Lila Sawyer has secrets she can't share with anyone. He's known as The Cur, and he leaves no trace-except for the victims he most viciously slays every fifteen years. Martin's Press, Beneath, a novel from Word Horde, and Everything That's Underneath, a collection of short stories forthcoming from Apex Publications. In this biting and electrifying novel from bold horror talent Kristi DeMeester, there's something out there that's murdering young women-until an overwhelmed mother and her secretive daughter refuse to live without answers any longer. Kristi DeMeester is the author of Such a Pretty Smile, a novel from St. This one will cut you.' - Christopher Golden Named one of Esquire's Best Horror of the Year One of Goodreads Most Popular Horror of 2022 Such a Pretty Smile, Kristi DeMeester (Jan 18): A biting novel from an electrifying new voice, Kristi DeMeester’s Such a Pretty Smile is a heart-stopping tour-de-force about powerful women, angry men, and all the ways in which girls fight against the forces that try to silence them.

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