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Nightwatching

A Novel

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Nightwatching

Written by: Tracy Sierra
Narrated by: Emily Ellet
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Unputdownable · Psychological Suspense · Horror · Tense · Gripping

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“Pulse-pounding locked-room suspense.”—Elle

Nightwatching is like nothing I've read before. I wolfed it down in two sittings; it's amazing.”—Lisa Jewell

A footstep on the stairs. A second to react. What happens next will determine everything.

Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise—old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: it’s the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs.

She sees the figure of a man appear down the hallway, shrouded in the shadows. Terrified, she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into the oldest part of the house, a tiny, secret room concealed behind a wall. There they hide as the man searches for them, trying to tempt the children out with promises and scare the mother into surrender.

In the suffocating darkness, the mother struggles to remain calm, to plan. Should she search for a weapon or attempt escape? But then she catches another glimpse of him. That face. That voice. And at once she knows her situation is even more dire than she’d feared, because she knows exactly who he is—and what he wants.

©2024 Tracy Sierra (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Domestic Thrillers Psychological Suspense Fiction
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What the critics say

“[Nightwatching] guarantees you will stay up, as I did, way past bedtime, tearing through pages to find out what happens, or you’ll be too petrified to sleep, or maybe both.”—Mary Louise Kelly, NPR

“Tracy Sierra is an impressive new talent. Nightwatching is riveting, by turns a chilling account of a horrifying ordeal and a whip-smart snapshot of marriage, motherhood, and the female experience in a man’s world. Psychological terror at its finest.”—Gilly Macmillan, New York Times bestselling author of The Manor House

“Breathtakingly superb on every level. A proper tour de force that delivers the highest possible grip factor from first word to last, and a more satisfying resolution than I dared to hope for.”—Sophie Hannah, New York Times bestselling author of The Couple at the Table

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Terrifying in wrong and unexpected ways!

Such a diverse range of emotional terror, described in a way that I think only actual human experience could have allowed the writer to put this to paper. This makes me think that the author must be a survivor of some unfortunate circumstances for her words to ring so true. She hits the nail on the head with the mental struggles that those of us who have survived violence and abuse experience in their minds. I was truly shocked to be reminded of myself and the rest of the world in this way. Unintentionally therapeutic, and terrifying in wrong and unexpected ways!!

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Not for the faint of heart!!

This book is so incredibly written you can feel it affecting you to your core as you read it. But the narration, my God the narrator drives this already incredible story over the top amazing!! I will NEVER hear the word “delicious” the same way again!!

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Loved this book

This was a fast moving story that had me hooked from the first minute and never let go! I would highly recommend this book- so gripping! Best read in a long time!

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