Tess' Revenge

By Russell Gilwee

A dark family saga certain to please fans from Joyce Carol Oates to Shirley Jackson. Hypnotic, relentlessly creepy, and wonderfully perverse. A scathing portrait of American suburbia from the author of The Night Sitter and Sorcerie.

Welcome to a quiet and elegant neighborhood where nothing bad is ever supposed to happen. High-crowned trees arch over sleepy sidewalks, neatly trimmed lawns, lush flower gardens, and large turn-of-the-century homes, including a grand old Tudor of dark wood and dusty brick.

The Whitfields live here. A seemingly perfect family from the outside. But this grand old Tudor is only a clever facade, hiding a darker truth. An unfaithful husband. A lovelorn housewife growing increasingly restless and desperate. And their daughter, a surly and secretive teenager.

It is late autumn. Halloween jack-o'-lanterns glimmer from porch shadows.

The dark curtain of night falls abruptly this time of year without the lazy wink and nod of dusk. And it has begun to rain, too. And with it, a cruel wind. A gathering storm which promises to never end in this quiet and elegant neighborhood where nothing bad is ever supposed to happen.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1731246749
• ISBN13: 9781731246745
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"