The night they told me my baby didn’t survive, I heard it. One tiny cry.

I ran and never came back. Not for sixteen years. Not until a stranger found me and handed me a note that chilled me to my core: It’s happening again. Come home before she dies too.  

Now I’m back in the hometown I swore I’d escape forever.

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My mother is dying.

My best friend Caitlin vanished years ago.

And someone is watching me – leaving dolls carved in my likeness, knowing my secrets, dragging me back to the night that ruined everything . . .

My Review

This was crazy bonkers at times and I loved every minute. Anything to do with religious cults is up there with my favourite genres, and One Tiny Cry is one of the best I’ve ever read. But it did get more out there as we progressed. No-one believes Darla that there is something weird going on in the town she left sixteen years ago, though as the reader we never doubt her for a moment. Nothing indicates that she might be an unreliable narrator.

I really wanted to slap Darla’s ‘best friend’ Emmie, who starts out on her side, but then starts to agree that she needs therapy for her imagined threats. And as for her other friends? As they say – with friends like that who needs enemies .

In the meantime, Darla’s mum is really sick and seems to be going downhill too fast. She is being cared for by nurse Trina, the same nurse who delivered Darla’s stillborn baby girl sixteen years ago. Trina gave me the creeps.

Darla loves gardening like her late father, and has a plant called Percy (plus a dozen plant ‘patients’) who she takes with her when she goes home, and even straps him in with a seat belt. Oh and she talks to him. Maybe talking to a plant is a bit odd, but who am I to judge. Sounds like me and my dog (yes, she has her own seat belt).

The twist at the end may be a bit much for some readers, but I thought it was ridiculously brilliant. This maybe one of my favourite books of 2025.

Many thanks to @ZooloosBT  for inviting me to be part of this blog tour.

About the Author

Christina Delay is an award-winning author of psychological suspense, as well as mythological-based fantasy written under the pen name Kris Faryn. A wanderer by heart, Christina’s latest adventure has led her and her family—a supremely patient husband, two adorable patooties, and a mischievous, senior citizen cat—to the southwest of France.

 When not planning their next quest, Christina can be found writing on her terrace, hosting writing retreats in the Caribbean and other exotic places, sneaking in a nap, or convincing her patooties to call her Empress. If you love books about complex characters who never know when to quit, with a good bit of will-they or won’t-they tension, check out her books, give her a follow on Facebook, or Instagram and visit her website, or sign up for her never-boring, hopefully-not-annoying newsletter.

Book Links
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