This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession… But when a monstrous creature appears under Haven’s bed right as grisly deaths are reported in the nearby woods, she must race to uncover dark, otherworldly family secrets - completely rewriting everything she ever knew about herself in the process. bonfires a young barista with a literary forgery business and of course, whoever keeps trying to break into her house. However, everyone in the nearby vacation town wants a piece of the manuscript: her father’s obsessive literary salon members, the Ink Drinkers her mysterious yet charming neighbor, who has a tendency toward three a.m.
Reeling from a failed marriage, Haven hopes an illustrated Bedtime Stories can be the lucrative posthumous father-daughter collaboration she desperately needs to jump-start her art career. Clearly just dementia whispering in his ear… right? The stories unsettle but also entice Haven, practically compelling her to illustrate them while she stays in the house that her father warned her was haunted. This secret handwritten manuscript is disturbingly different from his Pulitzer-winning works: its interweaving short stories crawl with horrific monsters and enigmatic humans that exist somewhere between this world and the next. Of all the things aspiring artist Haven Marbury expected to find while clearing out her late father’s remote seaside house, Bedtime Stories for Monsters was not on the list. In the bowels of the derelict ship, surrounded by horrors and dead men, Sean slowly uncovers the truth of what happened on the ship, in its final days… and the terrible secret it’s hiding. The Ministers, mysterious undying aliens that have ruled over humanity for centuries, want the data - as does The Republic, humanity’s last free government. Data connected to the Philosopher’s Stone experiments, into unlocking the secrets of immortality.Īnd he’s not the only one looking for the derelict ship. Refugee, criminal and linguist Sean Wren is made an offer he knows he can’t refuse: life in prison, “voluntary” military service - or salvaging data in a long-dead language from an abandoned ship filled with traps and monsters, just days before it’s destroyed in a supernova. But there are secrets there, terrible secrets that would change the fate of humanity, and eventually someone will come looking. For a longer list, please visit our catalog.įar off the edge of human existence, beside a dying star lies a nameless ship abandoned and hidden, lost for a millennium.
These titles have all received positive reviews in library journals. In honor of spooky season, here are a few of the most notable (and creepiest) adult fiction debuts for October.
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