Today, we’re pleased to present an excerpt from Jan Stinchcomb’s new novel Verushka, out now via Journalstone. It’s a novel about family secrets, mysterious presences, and the menacing presence of history. Gwendolyn Kiste called this novel “a devastating tale of the bonds between mother and child as well as the all-too-real terrors of growing up,” which certainly has our interest piqued. Read on for a brief glimpse of this uncanny work.