Welcome to East Elm, Michigan, a rural, Midwestern town that has more secrets than it does residents. In Crushing Little Things, you will meet Juliette Valentine, a teenage sociopath whose hobbies include gymnastics, breaking and entering, and stalking Jonathon, the boy next door. Attracting Jonathon is not enough; Juliette wants to own him. It does not take long for Juliette to become the object of his obsession, all by her design.
Very Bad Parents, the unofficial prequel to Crushing Little Things, introduces readers to Joan, an erratic young woman who survives a botched abortion. After her painful ordeal, she marries Jack, and they are blessed with a healthy baby boy. After delivering Jonathon into the world, Joan suffers from postpartum depression, and Jack struggles to suppress an internal darkness that has haunted him since childhood. When his dark side begins to emerge, the once loving and devoted dad is replaced with a monster whose unveiling changes his family forever.
