Unputdownable · Psychological Suspense · Horror · Tense · Gripping A Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club
Finalist for 2024Pulse-pounding locked-room suspense.” —ElleNightwatching is like nothing I've
read before. I wolfed it down in two sittings it's amazing.”—Lisa JewellA footstep on the
stairs. A second to react. What happens next will determine everything. Home alone with her
young children during a blizzard a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the
night. She hears a noise—old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is
disturbingly familiar: it’s the tread of footsteps unusually heavy and slow coming up the
stairs.She sees the figure of a man appear down the hallway shrouded in the shadows. Terrified
she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into the oldest part of the house a tiny
secret room concealed behind a wall. There they hide as the man searches for them trying to
tempt the children out with promises and scare the mother into surrender.In the suffocating
darkness the mother struggles to remain calm to plan. Should she search for a weapon or
attempt escape? But then she catches another glimpse of him. That face. That voice. And at once
she knows her situation is even more dire than she’d feared because she knows exactly who he
is—and what he wants.
