{"product_id":"marla-jonathan-janz-9798228749887","title":"Marla","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom beloved horror author Jonathan Janz, \u003ci\u003eMarla\u003c\/i\u003e is a slow-burn, full-throttle horror novel about the families we inherit, the guilt we carry, and the terrible gravity of a gaze you can't forget. Turn the page--if you dare.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn King's Branch, Indiana, everyone knows the Gorman House. Everyone whispers about the girl in the upstairs window.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetective Carl Lancaster is driving the same back road he's driven a thousand times when he glances up--and meets a stare that freezes him to the bone. Minutes later, a body turns up. Coincidence, he tells himself. Then it happens again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnnie Frost, a child-protection social worker with a crumbling home life, is used to walking into other people's nightmares. But a tense visit with a volatile family ties her fate to the Gorman house--and to a secret she's spent her entire life suppressing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDylan Ellison, twenty-one and drifting, comes home for the summer and finds himself drawn to the beautiful, enigmatic Marla Gorman. Curiosity becomes obsession; fascination becomes fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs strange deaths ripple through the county and rumors sharpen into patterns, Carl, Annie, and Dylan are pulled toward the same locked door: a creaking Victorian filled with moonlit hallways, a shadowed toy room, and a presence that smiles without kindness. In a town that wears its love of horror like a badge, suspicion is contagious, memory is dangerous, and some windows look back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Janz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798228749887\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blackstone Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Jonathan Janz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47761766056191,"sku":"9798228749887","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e1f9043b-20d3-404b-a60d-5d697739c23c.jpg?v=1765515410","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/marla-jonathan-janz-9798228749887","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}