Nightwatching: Fallon Book Club Pick (a Novel) -- Tracy Sierra, Hardcover

Unputdownable - Psychological Suspense - Horror - Tense - Gripping

"A nerve-shredding page-turner but also an ingenious guessing game and an absorbing account of a woman's struggle to make her voice heard." --Minnesota StarTribune

A mother is forced to the breaking point when her life and the lives of her children are threatened by an intruder

Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a noise--old houses are always making some kind of noise. But this sound is disturbingly familiar: it's the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs.

She sees the figure of a man appear down the hallway, shrouded in the shadows. Terrified, she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into the oldest part of the house, a tiny, secret room concealed behind a wall. There they hide as the man searches for them, trying to tempt the children out with promises and scare the mother into surrender.

In the suffocating darkness, the mother struggles to remain calm, to plan. Should she search for a weapon or attempt escape? But then she catches another glimpse of him. That face. That voice. And at once she knows her situation is even more dire than she'd feared, because she knows exactly who he is--and what he wants.

Author: Tracy Sierra
Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books
Published: 02/06/2024
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.29w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780593654767

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2023 pg. 9
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 01/08/2024
Booklist 01/01/2024 pg. 34
BookPage 02/01/2024

About the Author
Tracy Sierra was born and raised in the Colorado mountains. She is an attorney who currently lives in New England in an antique colonial-era home complete with its own secret room. When not writing, she spends time with her husband and two children. Nightwatching is her debut novel.