What Watches Us from the Woods - Paperback
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Calla never expected motherhood to look like this: a newborn with brittle bones, a toddler with unexplained night terrors, and a house in the Mississippi woods that seems to breathe around her...
When her family moves into a rural fixer-upper to escape the crushing weight of postpartum depression, anxiety, and psychosis, Calla hopes for peace.
Instead, she finds something watching.
What begins as small disturbances-scratching in the walls, toys moving on their own, shadows that linger too long-quickly escalates into a haunting of Hellish proportions.
As her medically fragile newborn fights for survival, Calla battles demons on every front.
Some are psychological: postpartum depression, religious guilt, and the crushing fear of failing her children.
Others feel terrifyingly real: a figure in the treeline, a voice whispering through the walls, a presence that seems to know her weaknesses intimately.
The house becomes a pressure cooker of spiritual warfare, maternal instinct, and supernatural threat.
Based on true events, "What Watches Us from the Woods" blends modern internet-age horror with ancient indigenous folklore, exploring the razor-thin line between psychological collapse and supernatural terror. At its heart is a mother who refuses to surrender, even as she's pushed to the edge of her Faith, sanity, and survival.
C. Kelly Boutwell is a Mississippi-born author whose work blends Southern Gothic atmosphere, maternal resilience, and the thin, trembling line between psychological and supernatural terror. Drawing from her own lived experiences-including postpartum struggles, encounters with the unexplainable, and the fierce fight to protect her medically fragile children-Boutwell writes with a raw honesty that resonates long after the final page.
She lives in rural Mississippi with her husband, Cole, and their daughters, Carolyn and Dani, who inspire both her courage and her storytelling. Her family also includes two loyal dogs, River and Winter, who keep watch over the home as faithfully as any guardian spirit.
Boutwell's life has been shaped by profound love and profound loss. She honors the memory of her snowflake angel baby, Sage, whose brief life left an eternal imprint, as well as her beloved cats Ziggie and Halley, who remain part of her story in every quiet room and shadowed corner.
She credits her strength and perseverance to the unwavering support of her parents, Sherry and Rance, and her brother Zach and his wife Alex, whose love has carried her through some of the darkest chapters of her life.
When she isn't writing, Boutwell is advocating for medically fragile children, sharing her family's journey online, and exploring the intersection of faith, folklore, and the unseen forces that shape our lives. What Watches Us from the Woods is her most personal work to date-an unflinching blend of truth and terror rooted in the real events that changed her forever.
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