- Horror, Thriller, Adult, Gothic
Single mother Elodie’s life has become a fairy tale. She’s met Bren, equal parts golden-retriever devoted and sinfully handsome. He’s whisked her and her autistic son, Jude, to the crumbling family house he’s renovating.
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Grave, contemporary, classical in form and intimate.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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- Author
- C. G. Drews
- First published
- 2026
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781250369994
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CG Drews is the award-winning author of The Boy Who Steals Houses and NYT Bestseller Don’t Let The Forest In, which is also a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, Indie Next Pick, and Barnes & Noble YA Book Club Pick. Their next YA horror, Hazelthorn, is out October 28th, 2025, with debut adult horror, You Did Nothing Wrong, coming in 2026. Their work has been translated into six languages, received a nomination for the 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal, and won the 2020 CBCA Honour Award. CG lives in Australia, never sleeps, and is forever buried under a pile of unread books. *CG uses they/them pronouns.*
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