Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this horror novel set
in 1990s suburban Charleston Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller.
Her ambitious husband is too busy to kiss her good-bye in the morning, her kids
are wrapped up in their own lives, and she's always a step behind on thank-you
notes and endless chores. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book
club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime
and suspenseful fiction.
This predictable pattern is upended when Patricia is viciously attacked by an
elderly neighbor, bringing the neighbor's handsome relative,