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    The Chrysalis
    The Chrysalis
    The Chrysalis
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Chrysalis

    Written by Brendan Deneen

    Narrated by Will Damron

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    Spawned by Brendan Deneen’s own experiences relocating to a New Jersey suburb with his young family, The Chrysalis combines chills, thrills, and a literal monster in the basement with commentary on love, marriage, and impending parenthood.

    Welcome to the dark side of suburbia.

    Barely employed millennials Tom and Jenny Decker have to grow up fast when they lose their cheap Manhattan apartment. Leaving “the city” is hard, but the blow is softened when they stumble upon a surprisingly affordable house in the suburbs.

    For Tom, the bills, the mortgage, and Jenny's unexpected pregnancy add up to terror. He's not ready for this kind of responsibility.

    Then he finds the thing in the basement. It makes him feel like a winner even as it scrambles his senses. A new job soon has him raking in the big bucks—enough that Jenny can start making her entrepreneurial dreams come true.

    The Deckers' dream home conceals more than one deadly secret. As Tom's obsession with the basement grows, Jenny realizes that to save her family, she must expose everything. Before it destroys them all.

    No one ever really wants to grow up…but sometimes behaving like an adult is the only way to survive.

    "Creepy, powerful, wonderfully twisted."--New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateSep 4, 2018
    ISBN9781250307927
    Author

    Brendan Deneen

    Brendan Deneen is the author of the award-winning coming-of-age novel THE NINTH CIRCLE, as well as the critically-acclaimed horror novels THE CHRYSALIS and MORBIUS: BLOOD TIES. He's also the author of the four volume ROCKET AND GROOT picture book series for Marvel/Disney, and GREEN ARROW: STRANDED, an original middle grade graphic novel for DC Comics. His other graphic novel work includes multiple volumes of FLASH GORDON, an original ISLAND OF MISFIT TOYS book, and the dark superhero tale SCATTERBRAIN. Upcoming graphic novels include THE BONES OF THE GODS and MORTIMER THE LAZY BIRD. His short stories and essays have been published by St. Martin's Press, Reader's Digest Books, 13Thirty Press, and Necro Publications.

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