The Apartment
$9.99
They thought they were living a nightmare. Little did they realise, it hadn't yet begun . . .
"Gripping, creepy as hell, and the dread will linger for days afterwards." Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls and Broken Monsters
Mark and Steph are struggling to move on with their lives after armed robbers break into their home and brutalise them. Shaken, they decide to get away and leave their troubles behind them. A house swap in Paris with a couple they meet online, the Petits, seems to provide the perfect escape. But upon arriving for a week's luxurious break at the Petits' flat, they find themselves in a festering, run-down apartment. And when Steph attempts to contact the Petits, she gets no answer.
Mark and Steph try to make the most of the trip, but they are unable to relax. After a series of increasingly unsettling events, they decide to come back home. Yet when they arrive home, neither of them can shake the feeling that there's now something sinister about their own home. As time passes, Mark's terrorized by a series of unsettling visions. But is it all in his imagination or is there a far more worrying explanation . . .
PRAISE FOR THE APARTMENT
"Dark and deeply disturbing. Trust me--this tense and frightening piece of horror is not for kids--or for the faint-of-heart. I'm still shuddering." R.L. Stine
"A perfectly crafted, deeply unsettling thriller: a portrait of a marriage unraveling, of the haunting and the haunted, and the idea that grief might be a door that can let other horrific things in. This book had me turning on all the lights, checking under the bed and in the closet, and savoring every terrifying page." Jennifer McMahon, New York Times bestselling author of The Night Sister
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