Bloodfire, Baby — Eirinie Carson

A gothic tale following one woman’s fight to keep her baby'safe when ancestral shadow figures emerge with a cryptic message.Sofia thought mothering would be all sun-drenched natural light and white linen sheets, as seen advertised by the momfluencers of Instagram. And why wouldn’t it be? Sofia has managed to build a new life on top of the rubble of her past. Her husband’s inherited wealth has landed them in a gorgeous home in a posh suburb, far removed from her origins. Motherhood seems like the natural next step of her picturesque life.When her husband travels for a work trip leaving Sofia all alone with their unnamed three-week-old baby, she can’t quite square how mothering falls solely in her lap. Nobody seems able or willing to help her: not her husband, not her best friend, and certainly not the mother she cut off long ago. Her postpartum reality is filled with shadows of ominous figures and sleep-deprived paranoia colliding with a darkness that creeps in and begins to spread, threatening to consume her entirely. As her grip on reality slips away, Sofia learns of an insidious haunting that has plagued the eldest daughters of the eldest daughters in the family for generations. With her baby’s safety on the line Sofia realizes she must confront her family’s murky history head on or risk losing more than the veneer of perfection.