No Child Lives Here

von Cliff Gailey

286 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

There are footprints outside the cabin. Small ones. Bare feet. And there is no child for miles.When Audra Keating returns to her late uncle's isolated cabin on Harrow Lake, she expects a few quiet days sorting through what he left behind. Instead, she wakes in the middle of the night to a scream beyond the porch.By morning, seven small barefoot impressions are pressed into the wet ground beneath her bedroom window.Audra is trained to trust physical evidence. She photographs the tracks. Measures them. Searches for an ordinary explanation.Then more prints appear.Food disappears. Something moves near the cabin after dark. A human-like cry carries across the lake from a direction that makes no sense. And among her uncle's belongings, Audra discovers evidence that whatever is happening at Harrow Lake may have started long before she arrived.There are rational explanations for some of it.A trespasser.Wildlife.Bad acoustics.Rain, mud, distance, fear.But none of those explanations account for everything.As the weather worsens and the road out begins to fail, Audra and the people trying to help her are forced to confront a question no one wants to ask: If no child lives here, who keeps leaving the footprints?No Child Lives Here is a grounded Canadian cabin-horror novel of isolation, mounting dread, unexplained evidence, and the terrifying possibility that something can be close enough to hear you without ever allowing itself to be understood.Fiction inspired by reported events and rural witness accounts.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798174028036
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published