United Kingdom, Aug. 25 -- You author Caroline Kepnes is working on a new "emotional creepy horror" series.

The writer, whose thriller novels about serial killer Joe Goldberg were adapted into a five-season hit for Netflix with Penn Badgley in the lead role, has announced a new series coming to YouTube.

As reported by Variety, her 2022 short story The Attentionist will be adapted into a short-form project for the platform.

The tale, which first appeared in Tor Nightfire's anthology Dark Stars, is set in 1990s Cape Cod, with year-round locals having to live alongside part time summer residents.

The first eight-episode season will focus on awkward teenager Maeve, 14, and her older sister, who both want to break into the waterfront elite...