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In this highly atmospheric horror-thriller from the Stoker Award-nominated author of The Violence, a young woman hopes to reinvent herself at an isolated artists' colony. . . only to be drawn into its dark, twisted past. ""Filled to the brim with righteous fury and fright that cannot be quelled, this novel solidifies Dawson as an unstoppable force.""-Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters In this highly atmospheric thriller from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of The Violence, a young woman hopes to reinvent herself at an isolated artists' colony... only to be drawn into its dark, twisted past. Sarah Carpenter is starting over. She's on the run-leaving behind her unsupportive, narcissistic ex-boyfriend and alcoholic, abusive mother-and headed for a new beginning at Tranquil Falls, a secluded artists' colony on the grounds of a closed hotel. There, with no cell signal or internet to distract her, she hopes to rediscover her love for pottery and put the broken pieces of her life back together. But when Sarah uncovers the body of a young woman while digging a hole for a pit kiln, things start to fall apart. Her fellow artists begin to act in troubling ways. The eccentric fiber artist knits an endless scarf. The musician plays the same carousel song over and over until his fingers bleed. The calligrapher grins with ink-stained teeth. Not to mention the haunting dreams Sarah has night after night. When she discovers glass shards in her clay, Sarah wonders if someone is out to get her-or if she's losing her grip on reality out here in the wilds, where the pounding of the waterfall never, ever fades. As she investigates the beautiful valley and the crumbling resort looming over them all, she unearths a chilling past that refuses to remain buried...

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“It Will Only Hurt for a Moment is a gloriously creepy and atmospheric horror thriller that smashes the patriarchy from beyond the grave.”—Halley Sutton, USA Today bestselling author of The Hurricane Blonde “No one does female rage quite like Delilah S. Dawson. It Will Only Hurt for a Moment is both a deft examination of creativity and a bone-chilling take on the asylum novel. It’s an absolute must-read.”—Ally Wilkes, Bram Stoker Award–nominated author of Where the Dead Wait “Dizzyingly effective . . . Dawson’s prose is a kind of knife work. . . . It’s impossible not to read.”—The New York Times Book Review on The Violence

“No-one does female rage quite like Delilah Dawson. It Will Only Hurt for a Moment is both a deft examination of creativity (via its pitch-perfect depiction of an artist’s retreat) and an absolutely bone-chilling take on the asylum novel. Never has the past seemed more desperately and rage-inducingly present. An absolute must-read.”—Ally Wilkes, Bram Stoker-nominated author of Where the Dead Wait

Praise for Delilah S. Dawson “It Will Only Hurt for a Moment is a gloriously creepy and atmospheric horror thriller that smashes the patriarchy from beyond the grave.”—Halley Sutton, USA Today bestselling author of The Hurricane Blonde “No one does female rage quite like Delilah S. Dawson. It Will Only Hurt for a Moment is both a deft examination of creativity and a bone-chilling take on the asylum novel. It’s an absolute must-read.”—Ally Wilkes, Bram Stoker Award–nominated author of Where the Dead Wait “Dizzyingly effective . . . Dawson’s prose is a kind of knife work. . . . It’s impossible not to read.”—The New York Times Book Review on The Violence

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Delilah S. Dawson is the author of the New York Times bestseller Star Wars- Phasma, as well as Star Wars Inquisitor- Rise of the Red Blade, Star Wars Galaxy's Edge- Black Spire, Guillotine, Bloom, The Violence, Camp Scare, Mine, Midnight at the Houdini, Disney Mirrorverse- Pure of Heart, the Minecraft Mob Squad series, the Hit series, the Blud series, the creator-owned comics Ladycastle, Sparrowhawk, and Star Pig, and the Shadow series (written as Lila Bowen). With Kevin Hearne, she co-writes the Tales of Pell series. She lives in Georgia with her family.

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