Graveyard of Lost Children - Katrina Monroe

Part modern gothic, part ghost story, Graveyard of Lost Children explores the sometimes-fragile connection between a woman’s sense of self and what it means to be a “good” mother.

At four months old, Olivia Dahl was almost murdered. Family legend claims her mother believed Olivia was a changeling, and that the only way to get her real daughter back was to throw Olivia down the old well in an exchange with the mysterious “dead women” who lived there. Olivia was barely saved in time.

Now she’s all grown up and ready to give birth to her own daughter…and she finally understands what her mother felt all those years ago.

Everyone tells Olivia she should be happy. She should be thriving. She should love her new baby more than anything in the world. But as weeks pass and she realizes she feels nothing for this small, demanding creature who depends so much on her, Olivia begins to worry she inherited her mother’s demons. Worry turns to fear when her body starts giving out, slowly deteriorating as the baby eats and eats and eats. Soon images of a black-haired woman plague Olivia’s nightmares, planting thoughts that resonate too closely with the past…tying mother and daughter together in a desperate cycle of fear and violence that must be broken if Olivia has any hope of saving her baby—or herself.