Publication Date: November 11, 2025
Wilbur and Elouise Saxton are forced to move south after losing their fortune following the Civil War. Hot-headed Wilbur is not happy about the adjustment, but his wife is glad to finally return to her home state. At least she was until they reach the home her late uncle left to her, and find it in much despair. It also comes with a dark secret, something her family hid from her for good reason.
When two strange women knock on their door offering to help the couple, claiming they know the land more than anyone, those secrets unfold. While Elouise slowly loses her mind, Wilbur is under a spell cast off by their young, charming chambermaids.
What was supposed to be a dream come true is slowly turning into a nightmare.
Elouise must fight for not only her life, but her husband’s as well. Will her days ever return to normal, or was this the future assigned to her all along? Did she ever have a choice?
Sinister is what comes to Elouise’s mind when she pieces the clues together, but that does not even begin to cover what is really going on.
A dream come true turns into a nightmare in The Chambermaids by Leigh M. Hall.
Elouise Saxton is thrilled to learn her late uncle has left her his estate in Texas in his will. After she and her husband, Wilbur, arrive, Elouise is plagued by nightmares. But when two women show up at their door offering help around the house for free, Elouise and Wilbur can’t say no.
What started as ideal quickly turns into a nightmare, especially for Elouise. Trying to sort through real and dreams, Elouise must figure out what these chambermaids are doing and how to stop it.
Hall does a great job with her writing. Her prose is very engaging and easy to follow. I wasn’t expecting the turn the story took, despite this being labeled a horror novel. This very much felt along the lines of films like Hereditary and The Witch.
It starts small and then turns crazy very quickly. My biggest complaint with this novel was the pacing. It started very slowly, and the next second, it was complete chaos. I had to stop reading for a second to figure out what had happened. Personally, I am a bigger fan of paranormal horror rather than supernatural horror, but I still found the writing quality and the story interesting.
The Chambermaids is a mind-bending supernatural horror that will leave you stunned.
In 2023, Leigh won a Claymore award for Best Southern Gothic Novel and was a top twenty finalist for the 2023 Reader’s Choice Silver Falicion Award. She lives in Texas with her family of gremlins and their amazing dogs. Not only does she love the heat, but writing outside in the summer is one of her favorite things to do. Growing up, she spent most of her time in the land of fictional characters and kept her head buried in a book. With ideas continually running around in her strange mind, she decided to dip her toes into writing. Leigh published her first novel, Girl Bully (a best-selling psychological thriller), in 2020. Since then, she has published many more intensely dark and captivating novels that fall in the dark-noir thriller categories. Over the last few years, Leigh has been very busy building her career as a writer. She is a Houston Writer’s Guild member and an associate member of International Thriller Writers (ITW).
