Those We Fear

Victoria Griffith

978 1 941286 71 5
Paperback | 220 pp
205 x 135 mm
Price: £8.99, $14.95, €12.95


Description:

When a dangerous situation forces 18-year-old Maria to leave her Boston home, she’s swept away to Scotland as part of the Witness Protection Program. ?In a strange land with a new name, Maria hides out as an au pair at the mysterious Harley Estate. Already known as an “over-feeler”—and paranoid for good reason—Maria is spooked by the odd behavior of the Harley residents: from the eccentric kids in her care, to the miserly nurse with the sheet-white skin, to the attractive yet broody eldest son, Jonathan. As the days pass, the vanishing portraits, the cloaked figures and the disembodied humming in the dead of night could perhaps be explained away, but it’s the discovery of Harley’s macabre and deadly family history that confirms Maria’s growing fears and suspicions may be more than just nerves; she may have fallen into something even more horrifying and threatening than what she left behind—something not even of this world.

Reviews:

A story so evocative and immersing, you’ll read it with a tight pulse and a held breath, hyper-vigilant and trusting no one.

Ash Krafton


A story that is like none I’ve ever read before. Victoria has a way of invoking emotion through her words, making it feel like I’m right there with the characters, experiencing every scene with them. The way she describes the spooky estate pulls me right in, forcing me to feel its vast emptiness and smell the age of long forgotten corridors, making it seem like I’m right there at Harley with Maria and this seemingly cursed family… A ghostly tale and a captivating read for anyone who likes a believable, yet eerie, mystery. Victoria Griffith’s writing style is excellent, allowing her words to come together effortlessly and play out like a movie, bringing this story to life.

Janae Mitchell

Author biography:

Victoria Griffith is the author of the award winning non-fiction picture book ‘The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santos-Dumont’, which won numerous awards, including the prestigious ‘Parents’ Choice’.

Before becoming a full-time author, Victoria spent twenty years as an international journalist, fifteen of which were as a foreign correspondent for the UK’s Financial Times. During that time, in which she served as the newspaper’s US science correspondent, followed by a stint as its’ representative in Brazil, she covered a wide range of topics, including architecture, space exploration, the human genome, the growth of the Internet, and Brazil’s Yanomami Indians. Environmental issues also featured and she spent some time in the Amazon rain forest. She even managed to fit in some children’s book reviews.

Victoria currently resides in Boston with her husband and three daughters.

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ISBNs: 9781941286715 978-1-941286-71-5 Title: those we fear