A HAUNTED HOUSE.
A Deadly Mystery.
SHADOW SISTER
From the best-selling author of Mrs. Rochester’s Ghost comes the chilling story of a young woman who returns to her haunted childhood home to unravel the dark and deadly mysteries of her past.
Ava grew up in a haunted mansion, the envy of all her friends. But after her mother died there when Ava was thirteen, the mystery of Blackworth Mansion turned frightening. For years afterward, Ava suspected that her mother hadn’t just perished of natural causes; she had been murdered.
Now, seventeen years later, Ava returns to the haunted mansion to face her deepest fears—and uncover the truth of what happened to her mother. But Ava’s own demons aren’t far behind. There’s her estranged and vindictive father, a mentally unstable sister-in-law, and a strange girl who may or may not be haunting the grounds. Even Ava’s rekindled romance with her first crush may not be what it seems.
When Ava makes a terrifying discovery on the house’s property, she can no longer deny the ghostly power of Blackworth Mansion—and the secrets hiding within its walls. But some secrets are dangerous, even deadly . . . especially the ones left to roost in a haunted house.
“In this chilling thriller . . . the tension builds as Ava’s search for closure puts her in the sights of a killer. Marcott keeps the reader guessing to the very end. Gothic suspense fans won’t want to miss this one.”
— Publishers Weekly (STARRED Review)
Lindsay Marcott
I write bestselling thrillers and mysteries, usually set somewhere along the fog-draped California coast, where beautiful scenery and bad decisions tend to collide. My books have been selected by Book of the Month, Literary Guild, and Mystery Guild, translated into eleven languages, adapted into a Hallmark movie, and optioned for both feature films and Netflix.
My earliest theatrical triumph involved writing and starring in a sixth-grade Thanksgiving play about a plucky Pilgrim girl and her wisecracking turkey.
I followed that with a hit for my high school drama club called Cinderman — a gender-swapped Cinderella story, because apparently even then I liked turning familiar stories upside down.
After graduating from Smith College, I held a colorful assortment of jobs: cat sitter, rock star assistant, waitress in a TriBeCa grunge club, and — entirely by accident — bagman for the mob. (Yes, really. No, not telling that story here.) Eventually I landed at Esquire magazine, which felt almost respectable.
From there I launched a freelance career writing for publications including Harper’s, Crawdaddy, Mademoiselle, and the L.A. Times Magazine. One career highlight was doing the Playboy Interview with the cast and crew of Saturday Night Live. I also wrote several nonfiction books before turning full-time to fiction, where I discovered that making things up was even more fun.
My first novel, Hide and Seek, sold 150,000 copies and was serialized in full in Good Housekeeping. It was followed by Everything We Wanted, a Publishers Weekly, Waldenbooks, and Barnes & Noble bestseller and Literary Guild selection. Then came my critically acclaimed suspense trilogy, Dead Hollywood Moms — later reissued for ebooks as the Fabulously Dead series, because apparently corpses can be rebranded.
My more recent novels include The Producer’s Daughter, a Book of the Month selection; Mrs. Rochester’s Ghost, which climbed into the Kindle Top Ten; and Shadow Sister, which earned a coveted starred review from Publishers Weekly.
Along the way, I’ve also written screenplays for studios including Warner Bros., Disney, and Paramount, and served as executive producer on several feature and cable films. I continue to contribute essays and articles to literary and cultural sites including Lit Hub, Dish, and Salon.
One of the things I love most is working with beginning writers, whether through UCLA’s Writers’ Program or as a volunteer workshop leader with the Los Angeles Library. These days I live with my husband and two cats not far from my beloved Pacific beaches — which remain an endless source of inspiration, menace, and fog.
