Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes award-winning author Shannon Kirk to the studio. Shannon Kirk is the awarding-winning, international bestselling author of Method 15/33 (psychological thriller), The Extraordinary Journey of Vivienne Marshall (Literary Fiction), In the Vines (psychological thriller, July 2018), and Gretchen (thriller/horror, July 2019). Shannon has also contributed to thriller anthologies, Night of the Flood, Swamp Killers, and an upcoming anthology on Border Noir. Aboout GRETCHEN: The new tenants have a terrible secret. So do the landlord and his daughter… Ever since Lucy was two, she’s been on the run alongside her mother. She’s never understood the reason for a lifetime of paranoia, aliases, and lies. All she understands are the rules: never lock eyes with strangers, never let down your guard, and always be ready to move on. Finally, after thirteen years and eleven states, their next hideaway seems perfect. An isolated, fortresslike place in the New Hampshire woods is the new home they share with its owner, a gentlemanly pianist, and his lonely daughter, Gretchen. She’s Lucy’s age and soon becomes Lucy’s first real friend. But Gretchen and her father have secrets of their own—and an obsession with puzzles that draws Lucy into a terrifying new game of hide-and-seek. Lucy’s dark past is about to come calling. And this time, for her and her mother in the house on the hill, it might be too late to run.

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