THE DEAD APPROACH OF AUTUMN
Autumn Monroe knows exactly how to act in an interrogation room. After gaining infamy for being the sole survivor of a local family massacre, Autumn wants nothing more than never to see a police officer again. She moves into a large house with three others. And even though she hides the bruises from hitting herself or the fact that she can still hear the music that played the night of her family's murders, she finally allows herself to be vulnerable.
But a year after surviving the massacre that claimed her family, Autumn Monroe's life unravels again when her roommates disappear without a trace. In the interrogation room, Autumn uses what she has learned from her family's case to come off as innocent: control your breathing, maintain eye contact, never fidget, and make sure your story is straight. But while every blood-soaked detail of her family's death remains crystal clear, the night her roommates disappeared is shrouded in thick fog. Only one thing is certain: she was absolutely furious.
Hounded by a detective who sees a pattern of violence around her, Autumn must navigate a maze of her own fractured memories to find her friends. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more she fears the most dangerous person in this story might be herself.
Alternating between the past and the present, THE DEAD APPROACH OF AUTUMN is a 71K-word slow-burn thriller that explores the haunted landscape of trauma where memory is both a weapon and a wound. It will appeal to fans of Stacy Willingham’s All the Dangerous Things and Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects, and resonate with those who are drawn to complex, traumatized female protagonists and unreliable narrators.