Rose, a young woman in a dying town, is desperate to escape. When unexplained dolls begins appearing on random doorsteps the townspeople become fearful of strangers and each other. The porcelain dolls look just like the little girls receiving them. Who is sending the dolls and why? As tensions escalate, Rose seizes the opportunity to further her dream of becoming a journalist. She encourages the townspeople to tell their stories and she submits them to a local newspaper. But, as the stories become more sensational, the paranoia in the town grows until things explode in horrific ways. Dolls explores how fear of the unknown and acting on rumor rather than facts can lead to devastating consequences. It’s a bigger, broader, bolder novel than Only Daughter, moving us from a creepy somewhat internal world to an entire—but no less creepy—town with a larger cast and higher stakes. Anna captures the sense of hopelessness, menace and claustrophobia that smothers a small town