Helen knows that if she is going to survive the year, she needs to uncover the secrets of Harrow.
For as long as she can remember, Harrow has haunted Helen’s dreams-and now those dreams have become a waking nightmare. The inheritance comes with one condition: she must stay on the grounds of Harrow for one full year, or she’ll be left with nothing. So when her grandfather dies, she’s shocked to learn that he has left everything-the house, the grounds, and the money-to her. Helen Vaughan doesn’t know why she and her mother left their ancestral home at Harrowstone Hall, called Harrow, or why they haven’t spoken to their extended family since. (Sept.Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers Agent: Lisa Rodgers, JABberwocky Literary Agency. The nightmarish setting, frequent surprises, and inherent ambiguity will appeal to fans of Seanan McGuire’s books. The characters, including queer, racially diverse, and variously abled teens, are well-developed, amplifying readers’ engagement in the high stakes. Framed as a series of post-incident interviews and supplemented with found camera footage, videos, and texts, this multilayered, unpredictable nail-biter reveals the truth one fragment at a time. In this chilling tale, Marshall ( I Am Still Alive) ties together regional folklore, urban legends, and ghost stories to craft an exquisitely unsettling dark fantasy. Traveling a supernatural road through a deadly darkness, they enter a world filled with myriad terrors and dangers, where breaking the rules leads to a horrible fate.
Now, mysterious texts point Sara and her friends on the same harrowing journey in hopes of finding Becca.
While searching for Lucy, Sara Donoghue’s sister, Becca, disappeared a year earlier. Local legend holds that the nearby woods are home to the ghost of Lucy Gallows, who vanished decades ago outside Briar Glen, Mass.
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