I love a good horror story and was looking forward to reading this one, but I must admit that I feel a bit let down. Michael rushes home from a trip out in the field (he's a geologist) when he finds out that his wife has gone into premature labor with their first child, a son. When he gets there, Sarah is acting very strange, and there is a strange woman there, Greta, a doula, who is doing her best to drive a wedge between them. At the same time, she insists that he not leave Sarah and the baby, even to go to the grocery store. Unfortunately, I figured out pretty quickly what was going on, which kills the suspense aspect of the story, as well as the horror aspect. It's not that this was a badly written book, it was just more of the same after about the first quarter, so there wasn't really anything to look forward to. This was a debut novel for this author, and because it wasn't badly written, I look forward to trying one of her more recent books.,

3/5 stars.