It will only hurt for a moment - delilah s. dawson

In this highly atmospheric horror-thriller from the Stoker Award-nominated author of The Violence , a young woman hopes to reinvent herself at an isolated artists colony.

only to be drawn into its dark, twisted past.

Sarah Carpenter is starting over.

Shes on the run--leaving behind her unsupportive, narcissistic ex-boyfriend and alcoholic, abusive mother--headed for a new beginning at Tranquil Falls, a secluded artists colony.

There, with no cell signal or internet to distract her, she hopes to rediscover her love for pottery and put the broken pieces of her life back together.

But when Sarah finds the body of a young woman while digging a hole for a pit kiln, things start to fall apart.

Her fellow artists begin to act in troubling ways.

The eccentric fiber artist is knitting an endless scarf.

The musician plays the same carousel song over and over until his fingers bleed.

The calligrapher grins with ink-stained teeth.

Not to mention the haunting dreams Sarah has been having night after night.

When she discovers glass shards in her clay, Sarah begins to wonder if someone is out to get her--or if shes losing her grip on reality out here in the wilds, where the pounding of the waterfall never, ever fades.

As she investigates the beautiful valley and the crumbling resort looming over them all, she unearths a chillingly horrific past that can no longer remain buried.