Imaginary (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798349543463)

Six-year-old Gemma's three clown "friends" whisper secrets only she can hear, their painted smiles stretching wider in the suffocating darkness of her bedroom. Her father Hank dismisses them as harmless childhood imagination until her crayon drawings begin moving on their own, eyes following him through empty rooms.

Strange occurrences multiply like spreading infection. Doors creak open to reveal nothing. Laughter echoes from vacant spaces. Reality fractures at the edges, bleeding childhood nightmares into waking hours. Something ancient and hungry hunts through a child's innocent eyes, wearing familiar faces that shouldn't exist.

Hank realizes too late that some games children play were never meant for the living. As his sanity unravels thread by thread, he discovers the most terrifying truth: Gemma isn't talking to imaginary friends, she's become their doorway. The clowns have been waiting decades for the perfect host, and now they're ready to step into our world, one bloody smile at a time.

Who's really protecting whom?