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Christine Bell's haunting and suspenseful novel draws readers into the world of a grieving widow stalked by a stranger bent on stealing away everything she has left - even her past.After weathering the first gut-wrenching year since her husband's death, Lily Declan is trying to move past her grief and find a place of healing for herself and her two young sons.But when a strange sympathy letter arrives, the quiet life Lily has rebuilt from her sorrow comes under stealthy, sinister attack. On her wedding anniversary, an intimate bridal gift is delivered to her door. Then, a bizarre home invasion shatters her sense of security, and a mysterious Facebook memorial appears. Like a hungry ghost, someone seeks to claim her love and loss as their own, to erase Lily from her own life and possess her beloved forever, in an embrace of macabre devotion.
About the Author
Christine Bell's first novel, Saint, was optioned for a feature film and praised by The Philadelphia Inquirer as "a brilliant first novel, an extraordinary book." The Seven Year Atomic Makeover Guide, a short story collection, was described by The New York Times as "accessible, entertaining and infused with the improvisation energies of a writer who refuses to play it safe." Bell's next novel, The Perez Family, received numerous awards including Notable Adult Fiction of the Year from both the American Library Association and New York Public Library. It was also awarded Notable Book of the Year by The Philadelphia Inquirer and The New York Times, calling it "a loud gaudy sentimental heartbreaker of a book, a triumph." The Perez Family was made into a feature film starring Marisa Tomei and Alfred Molina and directed by Mira Nair.
Bell's newly written novel is Grievance, the story of a young widow approaching the one-year anniversary of her beloved husband's death. Lily Declan is ready to leave the insanity of her grief only to find her family is being stalked by a shadow from her dead husband's past. Who owns the dead? Who owns our memories? How does the young widow trust her raw and shifting emotions in the everyday life that denies death and celebrates life at any cost?
Bell was born and raised in New York, has lived and worked in Miami and Nashville and now lives with her family in the Central Coast of California with writer husband J.F. Freedman.
