One Crazy Surrogate for Fox Atomic

Fox Atomic has acquired the rights to Kathryn Mackel’s horror-thriller novel “The Surrogate” (not to be confused with the upcoming Bruce Willis sci-fi actioner “Surrogates”), with Ralph Winter to produce, reports Variety. The film follows a couple who hires a surrogate to carry their child, only to find out mid-term that the surrogate is, well, sorta insane. Talk about bad timing! The novel is part of a subgenre that the trade calls “Christian chillers”, and Mackel has written two other thrillers for the genre, including “Vanished” and “The Hidden”.

Here’s a better description of the novel from the book’s jacket:

The perfect candidate to carry their child…with the perfect opportunity to destroy their lives.

When Kyle Dolan convinces his wife, Bethany, to hire a surrogate for their last surviving embryo, they allow themselves to hope once again. A med school student, Laurel Bergin seems perfect in every way. Problem is–Laurel Bergin is really Sable Lynde.

As the pregnancy progresses, Sable’s dark secrets surface, and her inner demons spill out into the Dolans’ lives. In a terrifying encounter, Sable is injured and lapses into a coma. Now the Dolans face psychological and supernatural forces they never knew existed.

Fearing for their sanity, their own lives, and the life of their baby, they confront the surrogate–and the darkness surrounding her–in a heart-stopping climax that will keep you reading late into the night.

Well okay, that doesn’t make the surrogate insane, it makes her kind of possessed, doesn’t it? Anyhoo, sounds like a fun little thriller.