Unholy Birth

By Andrew Neiderman

Book Overview

Congratulations, it's a boy... Now it's time to pray.

Kate Dobson and her girlfriend run a successful California catering business and share a beautiful home in the Indian Canyons of Palm Springs. They are secure in their relationship and more than comfortable financially. But Kate wants something more...a child. Her longing has invaded her dreams, turning them to nightmares, but it's a need that won't be ignored. So it seems like a miracle when Kate is contacted by Genitor, a cutting-edge in vitro fertilization clinic. Dr. Lois Matthews, the head of Genitor, will personally handle Kate's case, and everything is in place for Kate's pregnancy: an ideal donor, a live-in nanny. But before any test shows she is pregnant, Kate experiences unnerving symptoms in full force, pushing her body--and soon her sanity--to the brink. How can she feel a child quickening inside her? Why is she being pursued by a terrorizing radical group--or is she? Paranoia is taking over her mind, but a force of evil is taking over her body. And soon that evil will be delivered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 145163188X
• ISBN13: 9781451631883
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Neiderman thrills readers again with the "Unholy"

Another sign of his literary genius. Andrew Neiderman manages to keep readers guessing and glued to the page until the very end.

Loved It

I'm old enough to remember Rosemary's Baby and how chilling that was. This was reminincient of that story, but very good in its own right. This was my first book by this author.

Great storytelling

In Palm Springs, California, lovers "femme" Kate Dobson and "butch" Wilma "Willy" Radcliff are a happy couple whose catering business is booming. The only negative in their relationship is Kate's obsession with giving birth and raising that child. Adoption and heterosexual endeavor are out of the question so artificial insemination is the answer. Her nocturnal dreams are vivid and somewhat frightening. While persuading Willy to have a child to raise, Kate researches the net when instantly she receives an email from Gentior vitro fertilization firm out of Irvine. Not long afterward they meet Dr. Lois Matthews, head of Genitor and soon the two ladies agree to go with this firm. However, though Willy is sold, Kate becomes paranoid with things that seem too coincidental. Still she goes through the process, but before testing whether she conceived she feels the baby growing inside and a deep feeling something is not right. Willy warns her to stop being paranoid, but she begins to wonder what is growing inside her and just who is the father. The story line takes its time slowly setting the stage in the first half of the novel so that Kate seems increasingly unhinged and paranoid as everyone around her including cynical Willy appears normal. The latter part of the book focuses on her rapid descent into apparent insanity as she fears what is growing inside her. Fans will wonder whether she went over the edge or is there more, but will have to wait until the climax with the UNHOLY BIRTH of her child to decide between a tense psychological thriller or a modernized Rosemary's Baby enhanced by science and the acceptance of gay couples. Harriet Klausner

ROSEMARY'S BABY FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM!

How excited I am to the first to review my good friend's book. Andrew Neiderman has delivered a Rosemary's Baby for the new millenium. I could NOT put it down! Kate Dobson (HA! A sly take on hypocritical James Dobson of Focus on the Family?) is a lesbian woman who wants a child. She soon convinces her lover Willy to go along with Kate being artificially inseminated. She is, but by an organization you just know is going to evil! They insist Kate is not pregnant even though she is experiencing all of the symptoms of pregnancy, albeit very accelerated. Does this organization want to give birth to Satan, to an Anti-Christ, or just to a race of super humans? I can't tell you, you have to read it for yourself. Like all of Mr. Neiderman's recent books, this one cries out for a sequel. (Mr. Neiderman is the ghost writer for V. C. Andrews and those books always have sequels!) There are shades of VCA is the characters, but not the situation. This is truly supernatural (or is it just criminal?) and this is what Mr. Neiderman does best! I feel fortunate indeed to count him as a friend. Buy it, read it, love it!