India Hill Brown Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

India Hill Brown is an American published author.

She says that she is a southern belle at heart! India moved back down to the south and is living in North Carolina after living in New York City while working at HBO.

India has a day job working in social media, and writing is her passion. The freelance work that she has done has been featured in publications such as Essence, Teen Vogue, The Everygirl, and Sesi Mag.

The Forgotten Girl is a 2019 novel by India Hill Brown. When it comes to original stories, this is one that you won’t want to miss.

It’s a cold night in the middle of winter. Iris decides to have a little outdoor fun so she sneaks into a clearing in the woods with Daniel, her best friend. Their intention is to play in the snow that has just freshly fallen.

Once there, Iris makes a little snow angel that is perfect in every way. But once she has made the angel, she finds that there is a crumbling gravestone right beneath her that belongs to a young girl who had the name of Avery Moore while she was alive.

Strange things start happening right off the bat to Iris. She starts having nightmares that are incredibly vivid. She wakes up and finds that her bedroom window has been opened all the way and the snow is coming in. At one point, Iris even thinks that she can see the shadow of a girl that is in the woods, out there lurking. Could it be the spirit of the girl whose name was on that tombstone?

Iris also ends up feeling the abandoned grave pulling her. She isn’t sure if it’s really happening, but it appears that she has this energy that is calling her to come back to the clearing. It doesn’t really make sense but Iris is going through all of this and quickly becomes obsessed with finding out what is really going on.

Daniel and Iris decide that they will research the area more for a school project. While conducting their research, the pair end up finding out that Avery’s grave is part of a forgotten Black cemetery that has been completely neglected. The cemetery actually goes all the way back to a time where in life, white and black people were separated, and that continued to be true in death as this cemetery was exclusively devoted to the eternal resting place of those who were black.

As the two best friends find out more about the past of the town, they become even more determined to restore Avery’s grave. That way, Avery can receive the proper respect that she deserves, and the others who are buried there will also have the appropriate recognition. Perhaps restoring the young girl’s grave will give her a sense of rest and peace and all of the strange things that Iris is experiencing will at last settle down.

What Daniel and Iris end up finding out is that the process is not going to be that easy. Without their knowledge, they have woken up a ghost who is demanding and even jealous. This is a ghost that is not going to be easily satisfied, and she appears not to be swayed by the plans that the pair have to get the cemetery and the souls that reside there their proper recognition.

What the best friends also do not realize is that the ghost may be looking for companionship. It appears that Avery wants a best friend for life, and the spirit does not appear to care what it is going to cost or how it will affect others. Can this little ghost girl be laid to rest and find peace, or is this going to be something that Iris has to deal with for the rest of her life?

When it comes to spooky ghost stories, this one is too compelling to miss! Can Iris and Daniel find a way to let this spirit move on, or are they about to find out that they are in way over their heads? Read The Forgotten Girl to find out!

The Girl in the Lake is a 2022 fictional novel written by India Hill Brown. From the award-winning writer who wrote The Forgotten Girl, another chilling ghost story inspired by history is hand delivered to readers. If you have read Brown before and love her voice or are just looking forward to an original spooky story, be sure to give this one a try!

Celeste understands that when it comes to spending time at her grandparents’ lake house she should be excited and looking forward to it, but she’s not. It’s going to be two weeks there spending time with her brother Owen and their cousins Daisy and Capri, but there are reasons why she’s not looking forward to spending time at the lake house.

The cell phone reception is terrible, there are way too many bugs, and the dark waters of the lake are far too spooky. It’s just something that doesn’t make her excited to be there. She also knows that she just finished her swim test and failed, so she’s not a fan of being in the water because it’s too scary that something could happen and she could drown.

However, her grandparents have always been believes in everyone in their family having the skill of being able to swim. They grew up during a time where public pools were segregated, so it’s important to them that everyone knows how– especially since her grandmother’s sister drowned when they were young because she never had the chance to learn how to swim.

Once she is there, Celeste finds that odd things start to occur. Her cousins tell her that she woke them up in the middle of the night, but Celeste doesn’t know what to do about the accusations. She knows that she has been asleep through the night because she was experiencing nightmares where she was drowning, so she couldn’t have been awake to do that, right?

Things at the house start to get even more spooky. One evening, Celeste takes a look in the mirror after it’s been all steamed up by the shower. She sees a version of her face, but there’s something different about this version. It seems twisted. There’s a girl in the mirror, but she’s not sure if it’s her– and she’s not sure what this girl wants. Can she get to the bottom of what’s happening? Read this book to find out.