New Audiobook! Watcher of the Woods

New week, new audiobook! Watcher of the Woods is now live at Everand. I hadn’t realized this one was in production too, so it was a surprise for me as well.

After eighteen months staying home under rolling pandemic lockdowns with her girlfriend Joy, artist Thea Palmer has decided the strained relationship has run its course and she’s ready to end it—right after the stress of her birthday has passed.

Unfortunately, her surprise party comes with a special gift from Joy that puts the breakup on hold: a week-long cabin rental in the tiny northern Ontario community of Hope Falls, for just the two of them.

No phone.

No internet.

No contact with the outside world.

Joy says it’ll give them the perfect chance to reconnect and maybe restore Thea’s creativity after pandemic stress wearing down her desire to paint. But the cabin creaks at night under invisible steps, and the woods have trees that seem to shift in the corner of her eye. Thea swears she sees a strange white figure on the lake beckoning to her and an empty boat that drifts by in the early morning mist.

And Joy…Joy seems to be someone else entirely.

Same FAQs as last time! (Although the narrator is different.)

Other purchase options: Kindle – Kobo – iBooks – Payhip – Paperback – Hardcover (no Nook–they haven’t been paying me so that’s on hold)

The only additional FAQ I have is that this should give me a kick in the seat, probably, to write Stranger in the Halls, but: 1) I am still not sure how to start it (I don’t have Sydnee’s voice down yet) and 2) much like Watcher can change your reading of Dweller and adds some ambiguity (and, perhaps, outright menace), Stranger will probably turn everything on its head as it adds yet another twist to the world as established so far. And it’s one of those things where I don’t know if it’ll “ruin” some aspects of the other books for people or not.

But the standalones (which I consider these to be–they can be read independent of one another), also including The Silent Places and Taiga Ridge, continue to do better than any of my other books outside the first couple of Livi ones, so it would be a good idea to get it written and out eventually.

I have exactly one task to finish today, which I’m behind on but we had a major ice storm here and I was without power for eighteen hours on Sunday and another few hours yesterday, and everything’s thrown off. I can’t really grab much in the way of groceries right now (I had to throw everything out of the fridge for safety reasons; freezer was okay) but I’m about to pick up some staples for the next couple of weeks and then try to get back on track.