Drip...drip...drip... In five days, she will come...

Roberta 'Bobbie' Rowe is not the kind of person who believes in ghosts. A Halloween dare at her ridiculously spooky boarding school is no big deal, especially when her best friend Naya and cute local boy Caine agree to join in too. They are ordered to summon the legendary ghost of Bloody Mary: say her name five times in front of a candlelit mirror, and she shall appear... But, surprise surprise, nothing happens. Or does it?

Next morning, Bobbie finds a message on her bathroom mirror - five days - but what does it mean? And who left it there? Things get increasingly weird and more terrifying for Bobbie and Naya, until it becomes all too clear that Bloody Mary was indeed called from the afterlife that night, and she is definitely not a friendly ghost. Bobbie, Naya and Caine are now in a race against time before their five days are up and Mary comes for them, as she has come for countless others before... A truly spine-chilling yet witty horror from shortlisted 'Queen of Teen' author Juno Dawson.

About the Author

Juno Dawson

Born in Bradford, Juno graduated from Bangor University and became a primary school teacher and PSHE co-ordinator. Whilst working as a teacher she penned a series of YA novels whose success enabled her to leave teaching to write full-time.

In 2014, This Book is Gay, Dawson’s groundbreaking ‘manual to all areas of life as an LGBT person’ caused a furore in the United States where it was banned from a school library in Alaska for its ‘profanity and sexually explicit text.’

In the same year, she became a School Role Model for Stonewall and was also a recipient of the Queen of Teen award. In 2015, Dawson came out as a transgender woman, having begun transitioning eighteen months prior.

Her Young Adult fiction output often features LGBTQ+ characters and many of her books have been nominated for awards, with Meat Market winning the 2020 YA Book Prize. 2017 saw the publication of Dawson’s first book for adults, The Gender Games, with her debut adult fantasy Her Majesty’s Royal Coven – about a top-secret government department of witches – following in 2022. A lifelong Doctor Who fan, she has also written The Good Doctor novel for the iconic science fiction franchise.