The Trauma Child A Thriller

What would you do if your child began saying the most shocking, offensive, vulgar things? After witnessing her boyfriend murdered by a stranger, Neely Pfau and her ten-year-old daughter, Arial, flee to her childhood home in safe, rural Orchard, CT. But normally sweet-tempered Arial is having trouble adjusting. She becomes insulting and foul-mouthed beyond her years. A child psychiatrist and a pediatrician blame the girl's trauma. As Arial's behavior worsens and even turns violent, Neely takes increasingly desperate measures to control her. Then the worried mother learns a long-held family secret: her great-great-grandmother, Viola, was a notorious serial killer, and the last woman hanged in the state. Neely starts to suspect there is more behind her daughter's drastic personality changes than just trauma. The author of top-selling psychological thrillers The Neighbors in Apartment 3D, The Last Star Standing, The Perfect Face, and The Little Girl in the Window is back with her signature brand of crackling suspense with twists you will never predict.