Welcome to East Elm, Michigan, a rural, Midwestern town that has more secrets than it does residents. Very Bad Parents introduces readers to Joan, an erratic young woman who survives a botched abortion. After her painful ordeal, she marries Jack, and they are blessed with a healthy baby boy. After delivering Jonathon into the world, Joan suffers from postpartum depression, and Jack struggles to suppress an internal darkness that has haunted him since childhood. When his dark side begins to emerge, the loving and devoted dad is replaced with a monster whose unveiling changes his family forever.
Crushing Little Things takes place ten years after the finale in Very Bad Parents. In this sequel, you will meet Juliette Valentine, a teenage sociopath whose hobbies include gymnastics, breaking and entering, and stalking Jonathon, the boy next door.

Very Bad Parents
by Amy Meitz
4.5 Stars (66 Reviews)

In 1964, sixteen-year-old Joan Andersen survives the crudest form of savagery: a botched abortion. What follows is a series of painful complications, leaving her traumatized and emotionally scarred. Plagued with guilt and longing for redemption, Joan convinces herself that the baby she lost is still with her, an obsession bordering on delusion.

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Crushing Little Things
by Amy Meitz
4.4 Stars (132 Reviews)

Juliette Valentine is a cunning, complex, and pathological child prodigy. At fourteen years old, this elite gymnast manages to weaponize the family dog, create a rabies panic in her small town, initiate a CPS investigation into her own mother, and successfully hunt, capture, trap, and tame Jonathon, the boy next door.

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