A Daughter Disappears.
Thirteen Years Later, She Walks Out of the Woods.
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RELEASE DATE: APRIL 07, 2026
Thirteen years ago, five-year-old Annie MacIsaac vanished from the driveway of her rural Nova Scotia home. In the time that followed, her mother, Kate, built a quiet, controlled life anchored to the woods where Annie disappeared.As public sympathy wavered, and suspicion circled Kate, her isolation and grief hardened into routine.Until the day that a young woman stepped out from the trees. The girl who has returned is silent. Unnerving. Changed. As Kate struggles to reconcile the memory of her sharp, funny child with the daughter now living under her roof, the careful world she has constructed begins to unravel.The forest around them seems to press in and Kate begins to question what she sees, what she hears, what she feels. It seems Annie did not come back alone. Something has followed her.
And the cost of getting her back may not yet be paid.
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CD Cook writes psychological horror and suspense rooted in East Coast landscapes. She has a long-standing interest in the strange stories that cling to old places - the ones passed down in kitchens, carried into the woods, and shaped by the pull of the sea.Drawn to things that create unease in the rational mind, she writes toward the feeling that something might be standing just beyond the tree line. She lives and writes in Nova Scotia, where there are lots of trees.Vade ad mare.I Don't Fear My Daughter is CD Cook's debut novel.
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