KAY HANIFEN
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kay Hanifen was born on a Friday the 13th and once lived for three months in a haunted castle. So, obviously, she had to become a horror writer. Her work has appeared in over fifty anthologies and magazines. Her first anthology as an editor, Till the Yule Log Burns Out, was published in 2024. The Last Ballard is her debut novel.
When she’s not consuming pop culture with the voraciousness of a vampire at a 24-hour blood bank, you can usually find her with her black cats or at:
@katharinehanifen (Instagram)
@TheUnicornComi1 (Twitter/X)
ABOUT THE BOOK
THE LAST BALLARD
There’s more than one way to be haunted.
After the deaths of her abusive grandparents, prodigal daughter Rhiannon “Rhea” Ballard ends her self-imposed exile and returns home to the stately Ballard House for one last goodbye. She expects to pay her respects, field awkward questions, and let her family name die with her. But when she discovers that she had inherited everything, she must stay in the house and act as the caretaker while it is under probate to put her family’s affairs in order.
As she digs into her family’s dark secrets, the spirits of the house reawaken and her own traumatic memories resurface. With the help of the family cook, Morgan Reyes, an alluring woman with her own dark secret, and the supernatural skeptic groundskeeper, Andy Higgins, she must solve a century old mystery and put the spirits of the estate to rest before she becomes one herself.