Joyland
283 Pages
College student Devin Jones takes a summer job at Joyland, a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973. He expects to nurse his broken heart, sell popcorn, and maybe learn how to run the Ferris wheel. What he doesn’t expect is the ghost.
Or the murder that left her behind.
As Dev is drawn deeper into the mystery surrounding the death of a young girl in the park’s haunted house ride, he finds himself caught in a coming-of-age story laced with sorrow, secrets, and a touch of the supernatural.
Joyland isn’t a blood-soaked horror story; it’s tender, melancholy, and quietly haunting. A murder mystery wrapped in nostalgia, a ghost story about grief, and a love letter to the magic of carnivals, heartbreak, and growing up.