Corrupt
Penelope Douglas, 2015
A girl leaves the money and protection she has always known for a city where the one person who scares her already lives.
Penelope Douglas
Penelope Douglas writes about people who want the wrong thing and know it, and her books sit in that tension rather than resolving it quickly: the pull between safety and desire, the way a house or a city can hold a person in place. Start with «Corrupt», where a woman steps into a city and a man she has been afraid of, or with «Credence», where grief puts a guarded teenager in a mountain house with her father's estranged stepbrother and his sons. Both share a mood of unease and want, and both keep the pressure on.
Feels like dread, love and power.
Start with Corrupt.
Douglas first published Corrupt herself in 2015; the Devil's Night series grew from there, passed between readers largely by word of mouth.
Under all that money, something in the house is rotting.
Everything was so polished, and when I looked around at all the adults and families I grew up with, their money and designer clothes, I often saw a coat of paint that you apply when you’re trying to cover up rotting wood. There were dark deeds and bad seeds, but who cared if the house was falling apart as long as it was pretty, right? Books by Penelope Douglas
Credence
Penelope Douglas, 2020
After her parents die, a guarded teenager is sent to a remote mountain house ruled by her father’s estranged stepbrother and his sons, where solitude sharpens into obsession.
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