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Debra Hamilton confronts the fear of inheriting mental illness when her husband moves her into a hundred-year-old farmhouse on fifty-three acres of blacklisted real estate property. Floorboards creak when she’s alone. Objects appear and disappear. Neighbors insinuate the house is haunted but memories of her mother's schizophrenia make her wonder. Julie, a neighbor who befriends Debra, faces her own fears when a stalker starts sending perverted anonymous letters that cause a rift in Julie’s unstable marriage. Their plots merge as their friendship grows to create a rich and satisfying story. “Intelligence, as well as emotion, drives this novel. A taut thriller rich with lurid details yet also an evocation of vividly real and compelling characters.” --Mark Spencer, author of A Haunted Love Story, The Weary Motel, The Masked Demon, and Trespassers.

I studied creative writing at Baldwin Wallace Collage and Cleveland State University. I’ve work-shopped with Karen Joy Fowler (author of The Jane Austin Book Club) at Cleveland State University, and with Paula McLain (author of The Paris Wife) through the Ohio Arts Council. My short stories have been finalists for Perigee Publication for the Arts and The Fish Short Story Prize. Her mystery thriller Anonymous won the 2015 Eric Hoffer Award as first runner up; and became a finalist for The 2015 First Horizon Book Award, the 2015 Indie Book Award, and the 2015 IAN Book of the Year Awards. The Ohio Senate honored Christine Benedict for remarkable attainment in creative writing.