Horror has a new name: Daphne. A brutal enigmatic woman stalks a girls high school basketball
team in a reimagining of the slasher genre by the New York Times bestselling author of Bird
Box. It's the last summer for Kit Lamb: the last summer before college. The last summer with
her high school basketball team and with Dana her best friend. The last summer before her
life begins. But the night before the big game one of Kit's players tells a ghost story about
Daphne a girl who went to their school many years ago and died under mysterious circumstances.
Some say she was murdered others that she died by her own hand. And some say that Daphne is a
murderer herself. They also say that Daphne is still out there obsessed with revenge and will
appear anytime someone thinks about her to kill again. After Kit hears the story her teammates
vanish one by one and Kit begins to suspect that the stories about Daphne are real...and to
fear that her own mind is conjuring the killer. Now it's a race against time as Kit searches
for the truth behind the legend and learns to face her own fears. Or else the summer of her
lifetime will become the last summer of her life. Mixing a nostalgic coming-of-age story and an
instantly iconic female villain with an innovative new vision of classic horror this is an
unforgettable thriller as only Josh Malerman could imagine it.
