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The Darkness Within.
Lisa Stone

The Darkness Within.

You know your son better than anyone. Don’t you?

When critically ill Jacob Wilson is given a life-saving heart transplant, his parents are relieved that their loving son has been saved. 

However, before long, his family are forced to accept that something has changed in Jacob. Their once loving son is slowly being replaced by a violent man whose mood swings leave them terrified – but is it their fault? 

Jacob’s girlfriend, Rosie, is convinced the man she loves is suffering from stress. But when his moods turn on her, she begins to doubt herself – and she can only hide the bruises for so long. 

When a terrible crime is committed, Jacob’s family are forced to confront their darkest fears. Has the boy they raised become a monster? Or is someone else to blame?

Book Details:

  • Author: Lisa Stone
  • Published Year: 2017
  • Rights Sold
    • UK: Harper Collins
    • France: City Editions
Lisa Stone

Lisa Stone

As a writer of suspense thrillers I often ask myself what if? What if this happened instead of that? Or why a particular person reacted as they did. So often fact is stranger than fiction and these books start with a fact which I develop. You may be surprised to know, for example, just how many patients experience changes in their likes and dislikes after a transplant operation ~  The Darkness Within. Or how easy it is to look into someone’s home through their CCTV ~ Stalker.   Just a little bit about me. I live in England and have three children. I have always been a writ...
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Book Reviews

  • "The Darkness Within hooked me from the start. Once you start you won't be able to stop!"
    Katerina Diamond

Book News

  • Cathy Glass moves into fiction with two-book Collins deal 17 Mar 2017

    Best-selling non-fiction writer Cathy Glass is moving into fiction. The Darkness Within, a gripping psychological thriller, part of a two-book deal written under the pseudonym Lisa Stone, will be published by Harper Collins in July.

    Katerina Diamond, bestselling crime author of The Secret and The Teacher (Sunday Times bestseller, and both books hit Kindle #1 , has blurbed ‘The Darkness Within hooked me from the start. Once you start you won’t be able to stop!’

    The first book centres on a man who begins to develop the cruel characteristics of his donor following a heart transplant, and explores the idea of whether people are ever born inherently evil.

    Cathy Glass said: ‘I am absolutely thrilled to be working with Avon on this new venture. I shall still be writing my fostering memoirs and I’ve adapted the same fast paced narrative that has made the Cathy Glass books so successful. I think my readers will be as excited as I am.’

    Her editor Phoebe Morgan added : ‘We are so excited about this opportunity to work with Cathy on a new venture in her already amazing career. Her memoirs are loved around the world but in stepping into fiction, she is doing something entirely different and has created a gripping thriller with a chilling concept at its heart. I’m really pleased that Cathy is staying within the Harper family and can’t wait to show the world her darker side!’