The Quiet Child: A Psychological Smart-Home Horror Novel

By PG Stone

Audra thought the nursery was supposed to help.

The rebuilt Bergen County house is beautiful, expensive, and designed for safety. At its center is the smart nursery suite everyone admires-a room built to monitor, soothe, predict, and protect.

Then Audra notices what no one else will.

The room responds before her baby cries.
It logs comfort she didn't give.
It learns her voice, then uses it.
And little by little, it begins deciding what counts as care.

Her husband thinks she's exhausted. The experts think she's overwhelmed. The system keeps producing calm explanations for everything she sees.

But Audra knows her son by the weight of him in her arms.

And she knows when that changes.

The Quiet Child is a dread-soaked domestic horror novel about motherhood, surveillance, control, and a room that becomes far too interested in who a baby belongs to. Creepy, claustrophobic, and built to keep readers turning pages, it's perfect for fans of psychological horror, smart-home horror, suburban horror, and intimate family terror.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GV456TM7
• ISBN13: 9798253816769
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"