Crossroads, Laurel Hightower
Crossroads, Laurel Hightower
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Crossroads

Author: Laurel Hightower

Narrator: Linda Jones

Unabridged: 3 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/23/2020


Synopsis

How far would you go to bring back someone you love?
When Chris's son dies in a tragic car crash, her world is devastated. The walls of grief close in on Chris's life until, one day, a small cut on her finger changes everything.
A drop of blood falls from Chris's hand onto her son's roadside memorial and, later that night, Chris thinks she sees his ghost outside her window. Only, is it really her son's ghost, or is it something else—something evil?
Soon Chris is playing a dangerous game with forces beyond her control in a bid to see her son, Trey, alive once again.
"There's a single note that plays through all of Laurel Hightower's Crossroads, and in that note you can hear a mother's justified devastation, a lover's acceptance, and the haunting displacement of a ghost. Refreshingly nuanced character, down to earth in the rightest of ways, Crossroads will sincerely move you. There is a big mind, and an even bigger heart, behind this book." -- Josh Malerman, New York Times best-selling author of Bird Box and Malorie
"Crossroads is a gripping, deeply emotional ride. From its very first sentence to its shattering finale, this novella held me spellbound. If you aren't reading Laurel Hightower, you're missing out on one of horror's brightest rising stars." -- Jonathan Janz, author of The Raven

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heather on March 01, 2025

Incredible novella......more

Goodreads review by Katie on December 17, 2023

94 pages? 94 PAGES?! Laurel Hightower really said "I don't have time for fluff. Let's give the girl's what they came here for and not waste anybody's time." Somehow this book is so sad, sweet, gross, scary and poignant while clocking in under 100 pages. That's impressive. The characters were rich and w......more

Goodreads review by Sadie on February 10, 2021

This review originally appeared in SCREAM MAG issue (Gotta look it up/sometime in 2020) If you were to poll fifty random people and ask them what their greatest fear is right now, I would bet pretty good money that more than half would answer, “Something bad happening to a loved one.” So if this is t......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on October 22, 2022

Crossroads was short but honestly still felt too long to me. The first half was great - a crossroads demon story (which we get so few) and some decent body horror. But the second half dragged by. It was so repetitive that I finished not out of enjoyment, but just to get it over with. Crossroads did......more

Goodreads review by destiny ♡ on July 24, 2020

The first time Chris buried a part of herself by her son's roadside cross, it was an accident. Sometimes, horror is about jump scares, blood and viscera, torture, agony. Sometimes, it's about unsettling legends, looming creatures in the night, vicious entities out for revenge. And sometimes, as i......more