Splinter

Della Russo, a middle-aged retired grandmother of two, is totally contented with her seemingly normal, uneventful life. When Della flies to Colorado to spend time with her daughter-in-law, Lindsey, while her son, Jason, is on his tour of duty in Iraq, little does she know that within a couple of days her life will take a drastic turn and change her ordinary life into an unimaginable fight for survival.

Della begins suffering from nightmarish visions of an old attic after a splinter from a weathered wooden shingle used for starter wood embeds itself into her thumb causing a severe infection.

Now fighting for her life from the infection, Della's nightmares turn into a hypnotic reality as the entity inside her body pushes her to investigate a hideous crime committed decades ago in the attic the shingle came from.

Searching for the truth, and guided by her dreadful, ghastly visions, Della enters a world of hate and malevolence so horrendous, that it takes every ounce of her strength to handle witnessing the worst in humanity.

Mystery writer Annegret Werner Shaw weaves an intriguing story that leaves the reader unable to separate reality from fiction.