The Monsters We Create ~ Dawn Effect Volume I ~ By Britt Wolfe
COMING MAY 31ST - PREORDER NOW
Families are complicated.
Some yell. Some hug. Some drink too much and cry about it later.
And some quietly ask their grown children to come home and help clear out the attic.
Dawn Hollis hasn’t been back in years. She had good reasons—ones she still keeps neatly boxed up in a mental filing cabinet labelled “Not Helpful.” But when her father calls, saying her mother’s moved into care and the family home needs packing up, Dawn does what she always does: she shows up.
She’s good at that. Showing up.
Cleaning up.
Making impossible things sound polished and professional.
COMING MAY 31ST - PREORDER NOW
Families are complicated.
Some yell. Some hug. Some drink too much and cry about it later.
And some quietly ask their grown children to come home and help clear out the attic.
Dawn Hollis hasn’t been back in years. She had good reasons—ones she still keeps neatly boxed up in a mental filing cabinet labelled “Not Helpful.” But when her father calls, saying her mother’s moved into care and the family home needs packing up, Dawn does what she always does: she shows up.
She’s good at that. Showing up.
Cleaning up.
Making impossible things sound polished and professional.
COMING MAY 31ST - PREORDER NOW
Families are complicated.
Some yell. Some hug. Some drink too much and cry about it later.
And some quietly ask their grown children to come home and help clear out the attic.
Dawn Hollis hasn’t been back in years. She had good reasons—ones she still keeps neatly boxed up in a mental filing cabinet labelled “Not Helpful.” But when her father calls, saying her mother’s moved into care and the family home needs packing up, Dawn does what she always does: she shows up.
She’s good at that. Showing up.
Cleaning up.
Making impossible things sound polished and professional.
It’s how she made a name for herself in crisis PR—by walking straight into disasters and pretending they didn’t smell like smoke. But Dawn’s career is on hold, her apartment’s sublet, and she can’t think of a better distraction than cataloguing old furniture and trying not to get sucked into family dynamics she barely escaped the first time.
But memory is a funny thing.
So is silence.
And as Dawn starts sorting through the dust and detritus of her childhood, she begins to notice small things that don’t sit right. A box that wasn’t supposed to be there. A name she doesn’t recognise. A feeling she can’t shake.Something’s off.
And once Dawn notices something, she doesn’t let it go. It’s both her gift and her curse.
(That, and the fact that people tend to tell her things they shouldn't.)
Set in a fictional Pennsylvania town that’s just a little too quiet, The Monsters We Create is the first volume in the Dawn Effect series—a moody, intelligent mystery collection about the dangers of looking too closely at the past, and the even greater danger of pretending not to see.
Dawn doesn’t think of herself as an investigator.
She just asks good questions.
And she’s not afraid of the answers.
Not yet.