"There's something out there that's killing. Known only as The Cur, he leaves no traces, save for the torn bodies of girls, on the verge of becoming women, who are known as trouble-makers... 2019: Thirteen-year-old Lila Sawyer has secrets she can't share with anyone... But soon Lila feels haunted from within, terrorized by a delicious evil that shows her how to find her voice--until she is punished for using it. 2004: Caroline Sawyer hears dogs everywhere... At first, she blames the phantom sounds on her insomnia and her acute stress in caring for her ailing father. But then the delusions begin to take shape--both in her waking hours, and in the violent, visceral sculptures she creates while in a trance-like state... Caroline's past is a dark cellar, filled with repressed memories and a lurking horror that the men around her can't understand. As past demons become a present threat, both Caroline and Lila must chase the source of this unrelenting, oppressive power to its malignant core... Such a Pretty Smile is a powerful allegory for what it can mean to be a woman, and an untamed rallying cry for anyone ever told to sit down, shut up, and smile pretty." -- Book jacket flap.