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The Haunting of Paynes Hollow by Kelley Armstrong

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The Haunting of Paynes Hollow by Kelley Armstrong

Why We Love It

"Would you spend a month living in a cabin located on haunted woods where the last time you visited, you saw your father burying his latest victim? Oh, did I mention the millions in inheritance if you last the month? Sam hasn’t had an easy life, but with her mother’s drug trial coming to an end and care home threatening to evict, she accepts her grandfather’s inheritance challenge which will prove her father wasn’t a murderer. While Sam has always been haunted by that night, she doesn’t believe in ghosts... at least until she starts hearing hoofbeats in the night, seeing strange lights on the lake, and something crawling out from the water. Atmospheric and utterly bingeable, this headless horseman reimagining is mixed with Dutch folklore providing a constant crawling feeling that something isn’t right..." -Ashly

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Publisher's Description

From New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a nail-biting supernatural horror about a haunted lakeside property and twisted family secrets.

When Samantha Payne’s grandfather dies, she figures she won’t even get a mention in the will. After all, she hasn’t seen him in fourteen years, not since her father took his own life after being accused of murdering a child at their lakefront cottage. Her grandfather always insisted her father was innocent, despite Sam having caught him burying the child’s body, his clothing streaked with blood.

But when she does attend the reading of the will at the behest of her aunt, she discovers that her grandfather left her the very valuable lakefront property where the family cottage sits. There’s one catch: Sam needs to stay in the cottage for a month. To finally face the fact she was wrong and her father was innocent, in her grandfather's words.

Traveling to Paynes Hollow, Sam is faced with the realities of her childhood and the secrets kept hidden in the shadows of her memories. When her aunt goes missing a couple days into their stay, Sam begins to question everything again. Plagued by nightmares and paranoia, she begins hearing sounds in the forest and seeing shapes crawling from the water as the rippling waves of the lake promise something unspeakably dark lurking just below their surface.

Product Details

  • Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9781250360564
  • 288 pages
  • Published by St. Martin's Press
  • Published on October 14, 2025