Younger - by Dani Lamia & Clare Dean (Paperback)

About the Book

When the spirit of a vampire is unleashed during a séance at a luxury retirement home, a resident finds herself growing more youthful even as her friends and family rapidly age. She must find a way to stop the process before everyone she loves is dead.

Book Synopsis

Eternity has a price . . .

Harriet is tired of being old. There was a time when she commanded a room, was looked up to, even celebrated. But like so many women her age, she's been relegated to the background. Overlooked. Made invisible. Now that her daughter has stashed her away at a retirement home and early-stage dementia is blurring the world's edges, life has become a slow, inexorable march towards death.

But when her friend Margaret convinces her to participate in a ritual séance, things suddenly begin to change. Harriet feels spryer, sharper, even more hopeful. Is it the last gasps of a senile old woman or is it something more . . . sinister? As Harriet seems to grow younger--reawakening physically, mentally, and sexually--the people around her begin declining, even dying, at a rapid pace. Before long, she realizes that her only shot at saving those she cares most about is to make an unthinkable sacrifice.

​Younger is a chilling story about the horrors of aging and the allure of youth. It's a cautionary tale about the things we give up when we fail to embrace every stage of our all-too-short lives.

About the Author

DANI LAMIA is a pseudonym for the writing team of William Roetzheim and Randy Becker. William started his career in the tech industry. After launching multiple software companies, he turned his attention to writing, penning an award-winning trilogy of plays about America's great poets. Randy is an Emmy-nominated producer who began his career as an actor starring in film, television, and on Broadway, including the Tony Award-winning play Love! Valour! Compassion! He now expresses his creativity through writing and producing.
Clare Dean is a British fiction writer and portrait artist living in Vermont. She applies a paintery, highly visual approach to her writing, in addition to using story in her paintings. She holds a master's degree in theological research from Durham University in the UK and has spent twenty years working in academic publishing. Younger is her first novel with Level 4 Press.