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Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill | Kealan Burke
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When they were kids, Gillian and John used to visit the local cemetery every Sunday after church. It was a curious place for children to frequent, but they had their reasons. The main attraction was the lofty hill that separated the cemetery from the elementary school, and the act of tumbling down it like Jack and Jill was a ritualistic escape from the abuse they were suffering at their father's hands.It was an escape that lasted only until John's tragic death.Now, Gillian is all grown up. Married with two children, she has managed over the years to force the trauma of her nightmarish childhood into the darkest recesses of her mind.But lately there are dreams, and in them Gillian sees impossibly vivid reenactments of the horrors she endured as a child. Nightly, she sees John die all over again, only not in the way she remembers.And something else is in those dreams, stalking her, a terrible figure with wire-hanger hands and a plastic bag wrapped around its rotten face. A monster whose reach starts to extend beyond the boundaries of sleep into the waking world, threatening everything Gillian holds dear.A monster she once called Daddy.
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BookDude
Jack & Jill | Burke, Kealan Patrick
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Gillian is a married mother of two who has vivid nightmares due to an awful childhood. What they uncover and lead to makes for a horror story that will make you want to stop reading and take a deep breath before finishing. Jack &Jill is a story about how the cyclical nature of abuse can manifest itself in many ways.

Reggie I love this author! Have you read Kin by him? It‘s sooo good. 5y
BookDude I have! Loved Blanky and The Tent, also. 5y
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DeeLew
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Really loving these novellas by Kealan Patrick Burke. He really knows how to pack a punch in a short novel. I‘ve read all of them but Jack and Jill. 🖤💀

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JoeStalksBeck
Jack and Jill | Kealan Burke
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Wwioooo !!!!! Awesome book mail!!! I‘m shaking!!

AmyG Love it! 6y
LoverofLit Oh my gosh 😍😍😍 6y
JoeStalksBeck @amyg @LoverofLit he‘s so awesome! I was shaking when I got it! And that he wrote Joe Stalks Beck ❤️❤️❤️ 6y
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