When Childhood Nightmares Come to Life: A Young Adult Fantasy Horror Novel

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Wyatt Westlock is faced with a horrifying revelation when she discovers her former best friend, Peter, locked in chains in her childhood home. As they try to escape, they realize they are trapped by a malevolent entity and must confront their troubled past.

Many of us wish we could stamp out the ugly parts of our childhood. And no one understands that better than Wyatt Westlock, the protagonist of Kelly Andrew’s new young adult fantasy horror novel

But Wyatt and Peter are trapped on the farm together by a malevolent and ancient entity that has no intention of ever letting them leave. And there’s something terribly wrong with James, their other estranged childhood friend who says he’s there to help but only seems to stir up trouble. “I think that when writing it, I wanted to make it very clear, even if it's not explicitly stated that Peter has these feelings for Wyatt and this protectiveness that have grown in him as a product of growing up with Wyatt and being close to her. And at the beginning of the story when we meet him, he is compartmentalizing that and focusing on his own survival and his survival requires him to kill her.

“There's .. this through line of men in power doing whatever it takes to stay in power in spite of, you know, maybe stepping on those around them to get there. They're ritualistically sacrificing this child in order to allegedly protect, protect the world, but there's some selfishness in it. And so I really wanted to sort of dig into the lengths people in power will go to keep that power.

“I knew that I wanted to deal with the idea of growing up and leaving home, which, you know, Neverland contends with that a lot. Wendy's growing up and leaving the nursery, Peter Pan doesn't grow up and the Lost Boys are stuck in this sort of cycle.

Young Adult Fantasy Horror Novel Childhood Nightmares Revelation Trapped Malevolent Entity Troubled Past

 

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