Rabbits in the Garden by Jessica McHugh
Book 1 of the Gardening Guidebooks Trilogy
Twelve-year-old Avery Norton is head over heels in love with her best friend. With Paul Dillon at her side, she’s invincible against the slippery roofs of Martha’s Vineyard gingerbread houses, indifferent to sermons from her overprotective mother, Faye, and excited for another buoyant summer on the island.
According to the staff at Taunton Asylum, she’s also a crazed killer.
After uncovering a gruesome secret in her basement, Avery tumbles down a rabbit hole of death, doubt, and deception that leads to her incarceration in Taunton Asylum and threatens to keep her separated from Paul forever. But the more she learns about her past and the matriarch of the Norton family, the more she realizes how much danger she and Paul are in.
From Bram Stoker Award® Nominee, Jessica McHugh, the twisted mind behind The Green Kangaroos and Nightly Owl, Fatal Raven, Rabbits in the Garden begins Avery Norton’s horrifying journey to unearth the truth about her past and the woman who raised her to be a good little gardener.
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Hares in the Hedgerow by Jessica McHugh
Book 2 of the Gardening Guidebooks Trilogy
She wakes up in a 1973 Volkswagen Kombi, naked and afraid . . .
An aspiring singer/songwriter, Sophie Francis is searching for inspiration, pining for connection, and desperate to know why she feels so different from everyone else. Maybe it’s the ghosts whispering in the apartment above her, or the chilling thoughts writhing in her mind when the ghosts are quiet. Maybe she’s a reincarnated saint abducted as an infant and raised by a former serial killer.
Or maybe she’s just sixteen.
Upon meeting an intoxicating musician named Liam LaSalle and an enigmatic community of misfits known as the Choir of the Lamb, Sophie scampers down a rabbit hole of music, martyrs, and madness. There, she discovers her link to a dangerous legacy and a fiery little girl named Avery Norton.
From 2x Bram Stoker & Elgin Award nominee, Jessica McHugh, Hares in the Hedgerow leads Sophie Francis on a disturbing and transformative journey to expose and harness the darkness in the roots of her family tree.
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Reviews
“Hares in the Hedgerow is as beautiful, compelling and seductive as a haze of lethal perfume. McHugh writes with a level of assurance that makes me utterly breathless.”
—Gemma Amor, Bram Stoker Award nominated author of Dear Laura and Full Immersion
“Expands the fascinating world of Rabbits into an inescapable spiderweb of grisly generational trauma. Against a backdrop of cult obsession, McHugh deftly weaves varied timelines and desires into a murderous familial saga.”
—Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth and The Worm and His Kings
“Jessica McHugh’s writing, and Hares in the Hedgerow in particular, is like a silken noose around your neck—beautiful and horrifying, the softness of the writing lulls you even as it draws you further and further into the darkness, snapping you with a blast of pathos that leaves you broken afterwards.”
—Paul Michael Anderson, author of Everything Will Be All Right in the End and Standalone
“Hares in the Hedgerow doesn’t just pull you in and much as it lures you in and refuses to let you leave. This is part of McHugh’s biggest asset; characters that grab you tightly and refuse to let you go. This is Jessica McHugh at the top of her game. Beautiful and haunting.”
—Nelson W Pyles, author, voice actor and creator
About the author
Jessica McHugh is a novelist, a 2x Bram Stoker Award-nominated poet, & an internationally-produced playwright running amok in the fields of horror, sci-fi, young adult, and wherever else her peculiar mind leads. She’s had twenty-seven books published in fourteen years, including her bizarro romp, The Green Kangaroos, her YA series, The Darla Decker Diaries, and her Elgin Award nominated blackout poetry collection, A Complex Accident of Life. For more info about publications and blackout poetry commissions, please visit McHughniverse.com.
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