'Breed' by Chase Novak is a horror novel that follows a wealthy New York couple, Leslie and Alex Twisden, who are desperate to conceive a child. After trying various treatments without success, they travel to Slovenia to undergo a radical fertility procedure. The treatment leads to the birth of twins, Adam and Alice, but the consequences of the procedure start to unravel their lives in horrifying ways. The story delves into themes of obsession, the lengths people will go to for their desires, and the consequences of tampering with nature, all depicted through a fast-paced and gory narrative style.
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Content warnings include graphic violence, animal cruelty, and themes of parenthood issues that may disturb sensitive readers.
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Critically celebrated novelist Scott Spencer delivers a Rosemary's Baby-like novel of gothic horror, set against the backdrop of modern-day Upper East Side Manhattan.
Alex and Leslie Twisden lead charmed lives-fabulous jobs, a luxurious town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side, a passionate marriage. What they don't have is a child, and as they try one infertility treatment after the next, yearning turns into obsession. As a last-ditch attempt to make their dream of parenthood come true, Alex and Leslie travel deep into Slovenia, where they submit to a painful and terrifying procedure that finally gives them what they so fervently desire . . . but with awful consequences.
Ten years later, cosseted and adored but living in a house of secrets, the twins Adam and Alice find themselves locked into their rooms every night, with sounds coming from their parents' bedroom getting progressively louder, more violent, and more disturbing.
Driven to a desperate search for answers, Adam and Alice set out on a quest to learn the true nature of the man and woman who raised them. Their discovery will upend everything they thought they knew about their parents and will reveal a threat so horrible that it must be escaped, at any cost.
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