Butcher

When Lady Mae turns 18, she'll inherit her mother's ghastly job as the Butcher: dismembering Settlement Five's guilty criminals as payment for their petty crimes. But then the Deputies come to Lady Mae's house, and murder her mother for refusing to butcher a child. Lady Mae begins her new role but soon comes face-to- face with the Deputy that murdered her mother...

About the author

Laura Kat Young is a writer and teacher living in Chicago with her family. Her works blend genre and seek to explore a deeper understanding of human behavior. The 2019-2021 Writer-in-Residence at the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, her works have appeared in The Blood Pudding, Shoreline of Infinity, The Lindenwood Review and others. The Butcher is her debut novel. More can be found at www.laurakatyoung.com.

@writerlylaura

Summary

A suspenseful small-town horror novel of oppression, heartbreak and buried anguish - Shirley Jackson meets Never Let Me Go with the wild west setting of Westworld.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Kat Young, Laura Kat Young
• Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781789099034
• ISBN: 978-1-78909-903-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Horror, FICTION / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy, Horror & ghost stories, Horror and supernatural fiction