Girls Who Grow Teeth

At thirty-two, Cecilia Green has become the voice of a generation of survivors.
Her debut novel - a haunting, lyrical story about the monsters that hide inside ordinary homes -explodes across her small midwestern hometown before spreading far beyond state lines. Women, men, and grown children who spent their lives swallowing silence begin sharing stories they buried decades ago. Bookstores overflow. Interviews go viral. Strangers write to her saying her words saved their lives.
To the world, Cecilia is fearless.
A survivor.
A writer.
A woman who turned pain into purpose.
But success has a way of awakening old ghosts. Because Cecila did not merely survive monsters; for almost a decade she had also become one.
Long before the healing, before the interviews and applause and carefully stitched wisdom, there was another version of Cecila Green -one built from rage, manipulation, self-destruction, cruelty, and the desperate instinct to survive at any cost. A version she buried beneath years of therapy, rebuilding, accountability, and reinvention. A version the world has never seen.
And now, as her success grows and more survivors begin placing their trust in her story, Cecilia is forced to confront a terrifying question: What happens when the person teaching others how to heal must finally reveal the ugliest parts of her own survival?
As buried memories resurface and public admiration collides with private shame, Cecilia finds herself haunted not only by the monsters who shaped her childhood, but by the shadow-self she created to endure them. In a world eager to define people by their worst mistakes while ignoring the years spent growing beyond them, Cecila must decide whether true healing means protecting the woman she has become... or exposing the monster she once had to be.