The MADHOUSE presents the cover reveal for Maria Alexander's novel, Mr. Wicker.
Novel Summary:
Alicia Baum is missing a deadly childhood memory. Located
beyond life, The Library of Lost Childhood Memories holds the answer. The
Librarian is Mr. Wicker — a seductive yet sinister creature with an unthinkable
past and an agenda just as lethal. After committing suicide, Alicia finds
herself before the Librarian, who informs her that her lost memory is not only
the reason she took her life, but the cause of every bad thing that has
happened to her.
Alicia spurns Mr. Wicker and attempts to enter the hereafter
without the Book that would make her spirit whole. But instead of the oblivion
she craves, she finds herself in a psychiatric hold at Bayford Hospital, where
the staff is more pernicious than its patients.
Child psychiatrist Dr. James Farron is researching an
unusual phenomenon: traumatized children whisper to a mysterious figure in
their sleep. When they awaken, they forget both the traumatic event and the
character that kept them company in their dreams — someone they call “Mr.
Wicker.”
During an emergency room shift, Dr. Farron hears an
unconscious Alicia talking to Mr. Wicker—the first time he’s heard of an adult
speaking to the presence. Drawn to the mystery, and then to each other, they
team up to find the memory before it annihilates Alicia for good. To do so they
must struggle not only against Mr. Wicker’s passions, but also a powerful
attraction that threatens to derail her search, ruin Dr. Farron’s career, and
inflame the Librarian’s fury.
After all, Mr. Wicker wants Alicia to himself, and will
destroy anyone to get what he wants. Even Alicia herself.
Praise for Mr. Wicker:
“Elegant chills, genuine awe, and true tragedy are all
ingredients in the spell cast by Maria Alexander’s Mr. Wicker. Anyone who has encountered Maria’s short
stories surely expects her first novel to be extraordinary, and she doesn’t
disappoint. Mr. Wicker is rich,
lovely, and deeply unnerving.” —Lisa Morton, author of Malediction and Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween
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Artist Ryan Rice: https://www.facebook.com/ryan.rice.7777
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