In her stunning debut, Cheryl Isaacs (Mohawk) pulls the reader into an unsettling tale of monsters, mystery, and secrets that refuse to stay submerged.
When small-town athlete Avery's morning run leads her to a strange pond in the middle of the forest, she awakens a horror the townspeople of Crook's Falls have long forgotten.
The black water has been waiting. Watching. Hungry for the souls it needs to survive.
Avery can smell the water, see it flooding everywhere; she thinks she's losing her mind. And as the black water haunts Avery-taking a new form each time-people in town begin to go missing.
Though Avery had heard whispers of monsters from her Kanien'kéha:ka (Mohawk) relatives, she has never really connected to her Indigenous culture or understood the stories. But the Elders she has distanced herself from now may have the answers she needs.
When Key, her best friend and longtime crush, is the next to disappear, Avery is faced with a choice: listen to the Kanien'kéha:ka and save the town but lose her friend forever…or listen to her heart and risk everything to get Key back.
An unmissable horror novel for readers who devoured Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting or Claire Legrand's Sawkill Girls!
| ISBN: | 9780063287389 |
| Publication date: | 24th October 2024 |
| Author: | Cheryl Isaacs |
| Publisher: | Heartdrum an imprint of HarperCollins |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Genres: |
Thrillers Children’s / Teenage fiction: Friendship stories Children’s / Teenage general interest: Supernatural and mythological creatures Horror & Ghost Stories Fantasy / Magical Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction |