The New Girl (Downside)

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Paperback
2013
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Don't mess with the creepy new girl
Ryan Devlin, a predator with a past, has been forced to take a job as a handyman at an exclusive private school, Crossley College. He's losing his battle to suppress his growing fascination with a new girl who seems to have a strange effect on the children around her.
Tara Marais fills her empty days by volunteering at Crossley's library. Tara is desperate, but unable, to have a baby of her own, so she makes Reborns - eerily lifelike newborn dolls. She's delighted when she receives a commission from the mysterious 'Vader Batiss', but horrified when she sees the photograph of the baby she's been asked to create. Still, she agrees to Batiss's strange contract, unaware of the consequences if she fails to deliver the doll on time.
Both Tara and Ryan are being drawn into a terrifying scheme - one that will have an impact on every pupil at Crossley College...

Synopsis

Don't mess with the creepy new girl

Ryan Devlin, a predator with a past, has been forced to take a job as a handyman at an exclusive private school, Crossley College. He's losing his battle to suppress his growing fascination with a new girl who seems to have a strange effect on the children around her.

Tara Marais fills her empty days by volunteering at Crossley's library. Tara is desperate, but unable, to have a baby of her own, so she makes Reborns - eerily lifelike newborn dolls. She's delighted when she receives a commission from the mysterious 'Vader Batiss', but horrified when she sees the photograph of the baby she's been asked to create. Still, she agrees to Batiss's strange contract, unaware of the consequences if she fails to deliver the doll on time.

Both Tara and Ryan are being drawn into a terrifying scheme - one that will have an impact on every pupil at Crossley College...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: Main
Publisher: Corvus
Published: 03 Oct 2013
ISBN 10: 0857895923
ISBN 13: 9780857895929
Book Overview: A chilling take on high school: at Crossley College, discipline is strict, morals are old-fashioned, and, if you're going to pick on the creepy new girl, you better be sure that no one's watching out for her...

Media Reviews

Grey provides a deliciously unsettling depiction of a deeply inhuman world that nonetheless aspires to imitate ours. -- Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

Sarah Lotz is a crime novelist and screenwriter with an interest in zombie fiction. Louis Greenberg is a literary writer, editor and bookseller who has studied vampire and apocalyptic fiction. When they decided to write the first mainstream South African horror novel together, S.L. Grey was born.

Visit their website at slgrey.book.co.za