Rosie Shadow

When Clare's boyfriend Lennie dies in a mysterious car crash beside an ancient yew tree, she's left with more questions than answers. As a tour guide at the decaying Victorian prison HMP Shortbury, Clare knows how to tell dark stories—but she never expected to become trapped in one.

The prison's enigmatic manager Archie offers comfort in her grief, drawing Clare into a dangerous intimacy. But when her best friend Elizabeth vanishes after a night tour, Clare discovers the prison harbours secrets far more sinister than its medieval torture chambers and execution yards. Something inhuman lurks within the walls, feeding on the vulnerable. And at the heart of the darkness stands Rosie—a six-year-old child who shouldn't exist, whose connection to Lennie's death and the malevolent yew tree threatens to consume them all.

As winter closes in on Shropshire, Clare must descend into the prison's corpse-filled dungeon to save Elizabeth and confront an evil that has fed on suffering for centuries. But some hungers can never be satisfied, and some trees remember everything.

A haunting blend of folk horror and psychological terror, ROSIE SHADOW explores how grief can make us vulnerable to darkness—and what we're capable of when we fight back.

For readers who enjoyed The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley, The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters, Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver and The Woman in Black by Susan Hill.