"What Kind of Mother mixes Southern Gothic, a missing child story,
and body horror into an entertaining brew sure to inform your
nightmares."--Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the
World and A Head Full of Ghosts
After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to
return to her hometown of Brandywine, Virginia, with her
seventeen-year-old daughter. With nothing to her name, she scrapes
together a living as a palm reader at the local farmers market.
It's there that she connects with old high school flame Henry McCabe,
now a reclusive local fisherman whose infant son, Skyler, went missing
five years ago. Everyone in town is sure Skyler is dead, but when Madi
reads Henry's palm, she's haunted by strange and disturbing visions that
suggest otherwise. As she follows the thread of these visions, Madi
discovers a terrifying nightmare waiting at the center of the
labyrinth--and it's coming for everyone she holds dear.
Combining supernatural horror with domestic suspense into a visceral
exploration of parental grief, What Kind of Mother cements Clay McLeod
Chapman's reputation as a "star" (Vulture) and "the twenty-first
century's Richard Matheson" (Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman.)
