I'll Be Waiting

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Nicola Laughton never expected to see adulthood, being diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis as a child. Then medical advances let her live into her thirties and she met Anton, who taught her to dream of a future together. Months after they married, Anton died in a horrible car crash, but lived long enough to utter five words to her, Ill be waiting for you.

That final private moment became public when someone from the crash scene took it to the pressthe terminally ill woman holding her dying husband as he promised to wait for her on the other side. Worse, that person claimed it wasnt Anton who said the words but his ghost, hovering over his body.

Since their story went public, Nicola has been hounded by spiritualists promising closure. In the hopes of stopping her downward spiral, friends and family find a reputable mediuma professor of parapsychology. For the sance, they rent the Lake Erie beach house that Antons family once owned.

The medium barely has time to begin his work before things start happening. Locked doors mysteriously open. Clouds of insects engulf the house. Nicola hears footsteps and voices and the creak of an old dumbwaiterin an empty shaft. Throughout it all shes haunted by nightmares of her past. Because, unbeknownst to the others, this isnt her first time contacting the dead. And Nicola isnt her real name.

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"[A] nail-biting thriller... Armstrongs insightful characterization of her lead, even as it keeps readers guessing about Nicolas reliability as a narrator, makes suspending disbelief easy. Riley Sager fans will be delighted." Publishers Weekly

"The atmosphere here is superbly realized... Fans of Riley Sager and Lucy Foley will enjoy this well-paced and atmospheric ghost storythriller." Booklist, starred review

Author Bio

Kelley Armstrong is the author of over 50 novels in mystery, fantasy and horror. She believes experience is the best teacher, though shes been told this shouldnt apply to writing her murder scenes. To craft her books, she has studied aikido, archery and fencing. She sucks at all of them. She has also crawled through very shallow cave systems and climbed half a mountain before chickening out.