You'd Better Watch Out

Fourteen year old EVANGELINE knows she isn't good. She knows she might even be a bully to her quiet, studious classmate OLIVIA. But when her Dad returns home with a sinister looking Watching Elf, desperately hoping it will push her to behave, 'just in time for Christmas' , she's positive he's lost the plot. Just how old does he think she is?!But then footsteps scuttle past flickering fairy lights, when she's sneaking to places she shouldn't. A malevolent figure is reflected in her phone screen, when she's about to share malicious photographs. And, when a bullying teacher is brutally attacked during her detention, Evangeline starts to wonder: is this Watching Elf more than just a doll?And not to be forgotten, is Olivia. Always perfect Olivia. There's just something not right about her; she's got a part to play in this but Evangeline can't quite figure out what. All she knows is Olivia may not be as innocent or as perfect as she seems...The first in a brand new horror series, Blood Texts. Book 2 publishing 2nd September 2025. Cover illustration by Keith Robinson.