Maryann

Maryann - Work in Progress

Sisters Myra and Vanessa split the rental for a cabin in a small, historic town on Hunger Lake, Maine. The plan is to enjoy a family get-together reminiscent of the summers the pair used to spend at their grandparents’ cabin as children. However, during the first night of the vacation, Myra wakes inexplicably in the lake to the screams of her ten year old son, Max, who is rendered terrified by a bizarre nightmare back inside the cabin. 

Suddenly, Myra and Vanessa are reminded of the last summer they spent at their grandparents’ cabin - the summer their cousin nearly drowned. As the days pass, riddled with strange and contradicting memories, waking nightmares, and unsettling facts about the town, the sisters are forced into questioning whether the incident from their childhood was a freak accident, or the result of something sinister. Back in the path of an evil that lives in the lake, everything is suddenly a threat and getting away is the only solution.

I used to visit my grandparents in Maine every summer. When my grandfather passed away, my grandmother moved, and I no longer visited the quaint, seaside town where they had lived. Fast forward about fifteen years and my family got together at a lake in Maine to bury my grandmother. Driving north into the state with my husband and our children, experiencing the old haunts with fresh eyes and new experiences, something festered in me. Those little inklings became the fodder for this paranormal horror about a family vacation that goes unfortunately awry.

This book is for lovers of: Cabin horror, lake horror, vacations gone wrong, possession, New England witches, La Llorona, trippy hauntings, and old-fashioned ghost stories.