Inspired by true events, one girl’s life is changed forever when she foils a murder—and becomes a target herself.
When imaginative eleven-year-old Emma and her parents and friends go to a remote island in the Pacific Northwest during the summer of 1985, she thinks it’ll be a normal family vacation.
But when she starts dreaming of her loving Grandma Virginia killing people, she realizes there’s more to the sweet matriarch than she thought. And when she has a premonition that her grandmother intends to kill her husband, she knows she has to take matters into her own hands.
When she foils Virginia’s first plan to murder Grandpa Roy, Emma becomes a target herself.
Allied with her friends, Emma must differentiate between make-believe and psychic visions to try to save both her grandfather’s life and her own.
Inspired by true events, which author Becca C. Smith details on her YouTube channel, this book contains violence in many forms as the story follows a serial killer, her granddaughter, and shows both successful and attempted murders within the story.
Trigger Warnings
- body horror/gore
- violence
- childhood physical abuse (off page, described)
- death
- dismemberment, gaslighting
- gun violence
- suicide (off page, but Virginia’s father is depicted with a noose around his neck at all times)
- implied childhood sexual assault (off page, but to be clear: there is no sexual assault implied or otherwise of the main character Emma)
- nonconsensual drugging
- reference to spousal abuse/domestic violence
