Grim Root

the debut novel from Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

Embark on a darkly humorous journey of reality TV meets the macabre. On the set of The Groom, a group of women must compete for the heart of Midwestern bachelor Tristan by spending a week in a haunted house. Divorcee Linda, resigned to her role as the show’s underdog, finds her resolve cracking when she begins to fall for fellow castmate Charity. Meanwhile, Sabrina, groomed by her witchy mother to deliver their family from poverty by marrying a rich man, sees winning the competition as her predestined path.

But after a shocking demise, the game takes a sinister turn. As the remaining contestants grapple with their desires for love and survival, they uncover dark secrets within and without the house’s walls. Trapped in a twisted new competition, they must confront their own demons or face elimination.


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“…Stufflebeam has a lot of talent, a natural voice, and operates very adeptly in the literary territory where she is comfortable.”-Vogue Horror

“Her first novel, though, takes on a bright, shiny exterior and a fast pace.”-Denton Record-Chronicle

Grim Root is a sultry dish of horror reality television chock-full of laugh-out-loud fun, satirical horror tropes, twists and turns, love and desire, deception, hidden secrets, and a past just as gruesome as the present as those very grim roots lie dormant beneath the haunted soil of the Manor.”-Jon R. Meyers, The Horror Zine Staff Reviewer