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  • Published: 13 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9798217192151
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

What a Nightmare



They called her a nightmare, so she became one.

Haven Powers has spent years trying to disappear. Once a loud, troublemaking girl who defied every expectation in her small town of Friendship, Texas, now she’s learned to hide her fire behind a quiet receptionist’s smile. It’s safer that way—for her, and for everyone else.

When an unsettling encounter with her predatory boss cracks open the tightly locked box inside her, Haven dreams a terrifying dream about him, only to wake up and discover it’s come true; he’s dead. Desperate to gain control of this deadly power once and for all, Haven returns home.

Welcomed suspiciously with open arms, Haven is immediately met with the ghosts of her past. Under the suffocating pressure of the town and her family who believe obedience is next to godliness, Haven soon finds herself on a path to revenge. She’ll show them what happens when the girl they called too much, too loud, too everything, finally lets her demons loose.

  • Published: 13 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9798217192151
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

About the author

Rebekah Faubion

Rebekah Faubion is a queer author and screenwriter living in Los Angeles. Her books include the YA thriller Lost Girls of Hollow Lake, the sapphic rom-coms The Lovers and The Sun and the Moon, and her forthcoming adult horror debut What a Nightmare. She enjoys reading tarot, bingeing horror novels way past her bedtime, and thinking up places to bury the body—for the plot, of course.

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