Published in 2025
421 pages
10 hours and 40 minutes
Chelsea Conradt (she/her) writes twisty speculative thrillers. Her books are packed with both murder and kindness, because we can be more than one thing. When not writing stories that make you question what’s real, she is likely watching a baking show or a true-crime documentary. She is nothing if not on brand. Chelsea lives in Texas with her husband, son, and two big dogs.
What is this book about?
Every woman who has lived on this farm has died. Emily just moved in.
When Emily Hauk’s mother dies, it’s time for her and her husband, Josh, to finally leave San Francisco. A farm in rural Nebraska is everything they want for a fresh start: clear skies, low costs, and distance from the grief back home.
They should have asked why the farm was for sale.
Three years ago, a teenage girl went missing from the farm. Soon after, the girl’s mother mysteriously died. The deeper Emily digs, the more stories she finds of women with a connection to her new home who’ve met their own dark ends.
The farmhouse was meant to be Emily’s fresh start, but with each passing day, her sanctuary slips further away. The barn seems to move throughout her property, as though chasing her. Her mother’s favorite music drifts across the corn. She swears she saw blood in one of the farmhand’s trucks. And the screams that wake her are not foxes, no matter how many times her husband says otherwise.
Despite Josh’s skepticism, Emily feels the darkness that has seeped into the soil of her farm. And if she wants to claim this place as her own, she’ll have to find the truth before whatever watches from the cornfield takes her too.
