The Body

Description

“Hellish, sinister, and utterly unputdownable.”–Alexis Henderson, author of An Academy for Liars

The Body is a pulse-pounding supernatural horror story from bestselling author Bethany C. Morrow, where one woman must survive a series of bizarre and escalating attacks on her marriage.

Mavis broke from her parents’ congregation years ago, but she still hasn’t recovered. Their impossible expectations and soul-shredding critiques have dug deep into her mind, and she’s taunted by the knowledge that even when she’s done nothing wrong, she’ll never be right.

Now Mavis is afraid she’s about to lose the only thing she has: her husband, Jerrod. The man she’s always known was too good to be true. No one thinks she deserves him–not even after surviving the serial cheater they wanted her to stick by–and soon they’ll all find out they were right.

Mavis is already unraveling when a brush with death shows her what real fear looks like. Soon, she’s under constant attack from all directions. As the assaults turn increasingly vicious and bizarre, Mavis realizes that Hell isn’t reserved for the afterlife.

And sinner or not, no one is coming to save her.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Bethany C. Morrow
Published: 02/10/2026
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
ISBN: 9781250392121
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 1.30″ H x 8.30″ L x 5.70″ W

About the Author
Bethany C. Morrow is a national bestselling author and writes adult and young adult novels. Her young adult work includes JLG Gold Standard Selections A Song Below Water (a Locus, Ignyte, and Audie Award finalist) and So Many Beginnings. She is editor/contributor to the young adult anthology Take The Mic, which won the 2020 ILA Social Justice in Literature Award. Her adult novels include Mem, an Indies Introduce and Indie Next pick, and Cherish Farrah, a social horror, was the April 2022 Belletrist x Book Club pick. She was the 2021 Mansfield Lecturer at Roosevelt University, and her work has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, Forbes, Bustle, Buzzfeed, and more. Morrow is included on USA Today‘s list of 100 Black Novelists and Fiction Writers You Should Read.