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She goes to sleep in her bed. She wakes somewhere else. And then another woman is found dead.

Elena Baptiste has built a quiet, respectable life on the Caribbean island of St. Mary. At thirty-six, she is a devoted wife, a respected secondary-school teacher, and the last person anyone would associate with murder.

Until she wakes on her kitchen...

The storm is the least dangerous thing outside.

When Category Five Hurricane Helena bears down on the Caribbean island of Isla Esperanza, twelve people take shelter inside Villa Marisol, a luxury cliffside estate built to withstand almost anything.

Then every phone in the villa receives the same emergency alert:

STAY INDOORS.
DO NOT RESPOND TO...

Some warnings are repeated for a reason.

Don’t follow a light into the hills. Don’t look back when you hear a chain dragging behind you. Never walk beneath the Moongazer’s arms—and be careful what you accept from someone who should be dead.

In The Things the Elders Warned Us About, old Caribbean tales return in a collection of eerie stories...

Some kill to silence. He kills to teach.

Brian Hartley was supposed to be one of the good ones.

A respected Police Commissioner. A husband. A father. A man entrusted with protecting the people of Isla Verda.

But behind the badge was a secret no one could have imagined.

Ten victims. Ten confessions. And one man who insists every death had a...