Grievance: A Novel

Winner of the International Thriller Writers Award.

Christine Bells haunting and suspenseful novel draws readers into the world of a grieving widow stalked by a stranger bent on stealing away everything she has lefteven her past.

After weathering the first gut-wrenching year since her husbands death, Lily Declan is trying to move past her grief and find a place of healing for herself and her two young sons.

But when a strange sympathy letter arrives, the quiet life Lily has rebuilt from her sorrow comes under stealthy, sinister attack. On her wedding anniversary, an intimate bridal gift is delivered to her door. Then, a bizarre home invasion shatters her sense of security, and a mysterious Facebook memorial appears. Like a hungry ghost, someone seeks to claim her love and loss as their own, to erase Lily from her own life and possess her beloved forever, in an embrace of macabre devotion.

As more threats follow, Lilys home and family are no longer her safe haven, and its become difficult to tell friend from foe. But after everything shes already lost, she wont give up her memoriesor her familywithout a fight.