Delicate Condition

The Push meets Behind Her Eyes in this gripping thriller. Adapted as the twelfth season of American Horror Story, airing now on Disney+.

''Shockingly real, twisty and dark'' - INDEPENDENT ''Tense, thrilling and darkly comedic'' - HEAT ''The feminist update to Rosemary''s Baby we all needed'' - ANDREA BARTZ I wanted this baby so badly. But she may be the death of me... Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her public life as an actress with a gruelling IVF regime, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make sure that never happens. Medicines are lost. Appointments are moved. She''s sure she''s being followed. And when she finally does get pregnant, someone steals the precious ultrasound photograph of her baby. But despite everything she''s gone through, not even her husband is willing to believe that someone is playing twisted games with her. Then her doctors tell her she''s lost the baby. Despite her grief, Anna ignores them - because she can still feel the baby moving, can see the toll it''s taking on her body. Isolated in a remote snowbound town, Anna is sure that whoever has been following her is closing in on her and her unborn child. As her symptoms become more terrifying, she can''t help but wonder what exactly is growing inside her. And why no-one will listen when she says that something is horribly wrong... ''A timely, terrifying, heartfelt thriller'' - CHRIS WHITAKER ''Perfectly terrifying & terrifyingly perfect'' - JANICE HALLETT ''A thrilling, visceral read'' - HEATHER DARWENT

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Danielle Valentine ***writes bestselling YA horror under the name Danielle Vega. Her work, which includes The Merciless series and How To Survive Your Murder, has been optioned for film and television by Lionsgate and Warner Brothers, and has been translated into dozens of languages worldwide. Danielle lives outside of New York City with her husband and daughter. Delicate Condition* is her first adult novel.

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'Shockingly real, twisty and dark' - INDEPENDENT
'Tense, thrilling and darkly comedic' - HEAT
'The feminist update to Rosemary's Baby we all needed' - ANDREA BARTZ

I wanted this baby so badly.
But she may be the death of me...

Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her public life as an actress with a gruelling IVF regime, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make sure that never happens. Medicines are lost. Appointments are moved. She's sure she's being followed. And when she finally does get pregnant, someone steals the precious ultrasound photograph of her baby. But despite everything she's gone through, not even her husband is willing to believe that someone is playing twisted games with her.

Then her doctors tell her she's lost the baby. Despite her grief, Anna ignores them - because she can still feel the baby moving, can see the toll it's taking on her body. Isolated in a remote snowbound town, Anna is sure that whoever has been following her is closing in on her and her unborn child. As her symptoms become more terrifying, she can't help but wonder what exactly is growing inside her. And why no-one will listen when she says that something is horribly wrong...

'A timely, terrifying, heartfelt thriller' - CHRIS WHITAKER
'Perfectly terrifying & terrifyingly perfect' - JANICE HALLETT
'A thrilling, visceral read' - HEATHER DARWENT