Deena Undone

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SPANISH EDITION COMING – 2025

Deena Bartlett has suffered years of insults from Agatha, her last surviving relative. The misplaced loyalty she’s offered her eighty-year-old aunt is penance for having neglected her now-dead parents. But Agatha is dying and those insults are about to end…until a string of inexplicable incidents. A sound so piercing Deena’s nose bleeds. A smell so vile her breathing suffocates. After each attack, her aunt’s health improves. A connection seems absurd.

But everything becomes frighteningly clear when Deena learns that her aunt has made a bargain with the Sensu, a malevolent entity who’s stock in trade is the destruction of a person through their five senses. Anger and jealousy attract it—traits that Agatha has honed for decades. With the Sensu in control, Agatha’s long-held secrets twist her into a woman capable of killing her only niece. 

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DEENA UNDONE

  • “POWERFUL DEBUT…Suffocating and urgent. Deena Undone excels in psychological tension and the slow, unnerving unraveling of its protagonist.”
    — BOOKLIFE FOR PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
  • “Slow and patient build-up of moody suspense – an approach that fans of Grady Hendrix and Stephen King will surely welcome…absolutely stomach-churning.”
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    — KIRKUS REVIEWS
  • “Deena Undone is a remarkable piece of writing. … loving descriptions of the natural landscape; vivid character portrayal; and a novel supernatural motif—the notion of an ancient entity that seizes upon its victim’s five senses, individually and collectively, with terrifying results…all incorporated into a broader tale of searing domestic conflict fueled by love, betrayal, and hatred.”
    THIS NOVEL IS A SUCCESS IN EVERY SENSE
    — S.T. JOSHI, Bram Stoker recipient and author of H.P. Lovecraft, A Life
  • “A MASTERFUL BLEND OF PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR…Debra Every excels in crafting deeply flawed yet profoundly relatable characters…the most engaging I have read in recent years…Every’s writing is lyrical yet accessible, seamlessly blending vivid imagery with emotional depth.”
    — GINGER NUTS OF HORROR
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The year is 2075 and retired detective, Maxine Dayley is investigating her husband’s murder. But between her addiction to a drug called Vay/Cay and her hair-trigger temper, the investigation won’t be pretty.

For forty years the government has been cleansing the population of disease with edited DNA, sterilization, and arranged marriage. Not surprising that an underground community of gene-dodgers springs up. But that’s the least of the government’s problems. Gene editing will soon cause the very thing they have been trying to abolish. Disease on a massive scale. When Maxine’s husband stumbles onto the program’s failures, he also discovers evidence of a group of children at tremendous risk. 

Maxine picks up where her husband left off as she searches for the children and avenges his death. But connecting to a twelve-year-old girl was never on her agenda.

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