Out of all my novels, Dead Spots holds a dear spot in my heart. I believe it is my best work to date. I wrote the novel during an extremely difficult time in my life and to write every day was a challenge. Yet, the story poured out of me, and by the time I had reached the end, I knew I had written something special.
Originally published by Tor, Dead Spots had a tough time finding its audience. The cover was not very alluring, and the support I had hoped the book would get from its publisher didn’t happen.
Last year I asked for a reversion of rights for all four of my novels published by Tor. I received those rights at the end of the year. Dead Spots is the first of the four novels to be indie-published. It has a new cover and book description that I believe better fits the novel.
Dead Spots is the perfect read for people who love horror in the vein of Silent Hill. It’s an exploration of one woman’s deepest fears and how she battles her living nightmares.
In the dead spots,
dreams become reality,
terror knows your name,
and nightmares can kill you.
After suffering an unimaginable loss, Mackenzie Babin decides to return to her unhappy childhood home to try to piece her life back together. It won’t be an easy task with so many pieces missing, but she has no other choice.
Until she has a near accident on the back roads of Texas.
Rattled by her already frayed nerves, she decides to impulsively do something that goes against her anxious nature and explore an abandoned diner to prove to herself that she’s strong enough to start over.
Instead, she stumbles through a doorway into the world of dreams and nightmares—a dead spot—where she’s forced to face her worst fears, her past traumas, and creatures of her cruelest nightmares. Worse yet: there isn’t a known exit, and even death won’t release her from the hellish dreamscape.
Mackenzie is on the verge of surrendering to the nightmares when she hears a young child calling out for help. Is it a trap, or a chance to escape?