BooksA Box Full of Darkness
Simone St. James, the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel, returns with her scariest, most shocking novel yet in this pulse-pounding story about siblings who return to the house they fled 18 years before, called back by the ghost of their long-missing brother and his haunting request: Come home. Strange things happen in Fell, New York. A mysterious drowning at the town’s roadside motel. The unexplained death of a young girl whose body is left by the railroad tracks. For the Esmie siblings—Violet, Vail, and Dodie—the final straw was the shocking disappearance of their little brother. It started as a normal game of hide-and-seek. The three closed their eyes and counted to ten while Ben went to hide. But this time, they never found their brother—he was gone and the ongoing search efforts turned up no clues. As their parents grew increasingly distant, Violet, Vail, and Dodie were each haunted by visions and frightening events that made them leave town and never look back. Violet still sees dead people—spirits who remind her of Sister, the menacing presence that terrorized her for years. And now after two decades running from their past, it’s time for a homecoming. Because Ben is back, and he’s ready to lead them to the answers they’ve longed for and long feared. If the ghosts of Fell don’t get to them first. A Box Full of Darkness is another propulsive thriller from the author of The Broken Girls and The Book of Cold Cases, a surprising horror story from a writer who is “particularly gifted at doling out twists” (The New York Times).
Simone St. James, the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel, returns with her scariest, most shocking novel yet in this pulse-pounding story about siblings who return to the house they fled 18 years before, called back by the ghost of their long-missing brother and his haunting request: Come home. Strange things happen in Fell, New York. A mysterious drowning at the town’s roadside motel. The unexplained death of a young girl whose body is left by the railroad tracks. For the Esmie siblings—Violet, Vail, and Dodie—the final straw was the shocking disappearance of their little brother. It started as a normal game of hide-and-seek. The three closed their eyes and counted to ten while Ben went to hide. But this time, they never found their brother—he was gone and the ongoing search efforts turned up no clues. As their parents grew increasingly distant, Violet, Vail, and Dodie were each haunted by visions and frightening events that made them leave town and never look back. Violet still sees dead people—spirits who remind her of Sister, the menacing presence that terrorized her for years. And now after two decades running from their past, it’s time for a homecoming. Because Ben is back, and he’s ready to lead them to the answers they’ve longed for and long feared. If the ghosts of Fell don’t get to them first. A Box Full of Darkness is another propulsive thriller from the author of The Broken Girls and The Book of Cold Cases, a surprising horror story from a writer who is “particularly gifted at doling out twists” (The New York Times).
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Combining eerie supernatural hauntings with intricate murder mysteries, contemporary and historical suspense novels have found a distinct voice in chilling paranormal thrillers like The Sun Down Motel and The Broken Girls. Canadian author Simone St. James crafts stories centered around mysterious deaths, haunted locations, and persistent investigators. Her books blend creepy atmospheric tension with crime investigations to deliver propulsive narratives about long-buried secrets.
Simone St. James wrote her first ghost story, which was set in a haunted library, while attending high school. She spent twenty years working behind the scenes in the television business before deciding in her thirties to pursue a professional career in fiction writing. Her debut novel, The Haunting of Maddy Clare, achieved widespread recognition, earning two RITA Awards from the Romance Writers of America as well as an Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada. Following the success of her debut and her subsequent novel An Inquiry Into Love and Death, St. James left television to write full-time. She became a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with her multi-timeline mystery thrillers and lives just outside Toronto, Canada, with her husband and a rescue cat.
Inspired by a desire to read ghost stories that were eerie and unsettling without being excessively gory, St. James began crafting fiction centered on the spooky possibilities of the supernatural. Her early novels focused on historical mysteries, frequently set in post-World War I England, while her later works incorporate modern dual timelines, true-crime elements, and sinister roadside settings like remote motels and highways. Recurring themes across her writing include cold case investigations, female solidarity, lingering hauntings, boarding school secrets, and ghost stories where the spirits are inextricably tied to unpunished crimes.
6 books in catalog
Combining eerie supernatural hauntings with intricate murder mysteries, contemporary and historical suspense novels have found a distinct voice in chilling paranormal thrillers like The Sun Down Motel and The Broken Girls. Canadian author Simone St. James crafts stories centered around mysterious deaths, haunted locations, and persistent investigators. Her books blend creepy atmospheric tension with crime investigations to deliver propulsive narratives about long-buried secrets.
Simone St. James wrote her first ghost story, which was set in a haunted library, while attending high school. She spent twenty years working behind the scenes in the television business before deciding in her thirties to pursue a professional career in fiction writing. Her debut novel, The Haunting of Maddy Clare, achieved widespread recognition, earning two RITA Awards from the Romance Writers of America as well as an Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada. Following the success of her debut and her subsequent novel An Inquiry Into Love and Death, St. James left television to write full-time. She became a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with her multi-timeline mystery thrillers and lives just outside Toronto, Canada, with her husband and a rescue cat.
Inspired by a desire to read ghost stories that were eerie and unsettling without being excessively gory, St. James began crafting fiction centered on the spooky possibilities of the supernatural. Her early novels focused on historical mysteries, frequently set in post-World War I England, while her later works incorporate modern dual timelines, true-crime elements, and sinister roadside settings like remote motels and highways. Recurring themes across her writing include cold case investigations, female solidarity, lingering hauntings, boarding school secrets, and ghost stories where the spirits are inextricably tied to unpunished crimes.
