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Also by Dawn Kurtagich:

The Thorns, April 2025
Trade Paperback
The Madness, September 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Blood on the Wind, April 2024
Hardcover
Teeth in the Mist, June 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
And the Trees Crept In, August 2017
Paperback / e-Book
The Dead House, September 2015
Hardcover / e-Book

The Thorns
Dawn Kurtagich

Thomas & Mercer
April 2025
On Sale: April 1, 2025
Featuring: Bethany; Stacey
383 pages
ISBN: 1662526970
EAN: 9781662526978
Trade Paperback
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Coming of Age | Thriller Psychological | Horror

In this hauntingly twisted tale, an author reconnects with an old boarding school friend, forcing her to reckon with their shared past and the imaginary creature she thought they left behind.

Touch a line, you break your spine.

Stacey is the dusty air, the cracked soil, the drought. To thirteen-year-old Bethany Sloane, she’s everything.

Abandoned by her mother at a remote African boarding school, Bethany will do anything to stay in Stacey’s good graces. And that means learning the rules of each twisted game.

Touch a crack, you break your back.

Years later, Bethany is a bestselling author. Disabled now, she can’t remember what happened back in the bush. But there’s no mistaking Stacey Preston’s name in her inbox.

Glassy, glassy, cut my arsey.

That email brings Bethany’s childhood rushing back. The Glass Man was just a story the Thorns invented, a game of wits. But every game has its rules—and consequences for breaking them. To stay alive this round, Bethany needs to play right into Stacey’s hands.

Dark and disturbing, The Thorns explores the horrifying world of adolescent abuse, controlling friendships, and blinding obsession.

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