After being mugged in Minneapolis, pregnant journalist Joan Harken has been whisked away from the dangerous city by her fiance, Deck, who's convinced that his idyllic hometown of Lilydale is the perfect safe haven for their burgeoning family. While Joan is cautiously excited to put down some roots, something about Lilydale seems...off. The neighbors on Mill Street are just a bit too nice, and everybody (and I do mean *everybody*) seems to know Joan's business. The longer she spends in Lilydale, the more sinister everything seems, and weirdly, the more interested the longtime residents are in Joan's baby.
This is like an odd mashup of Stepford Wives and Rosemary's Baby, with a bit of that really disturbing "Home" episode of X-Files thrown in for extra creepiness. It was a fast and disturbing read, though not a particularly fantastic one.
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