The youngest sister is wracked with guilt and anger over not being able to make anything better. But what if the mother isn’t monster they believe? What if something else has caused forest to turn angry and the magic to turn foul? Why are girls disappearing in the woods and how is it connected to her mother’s nightly monstrous transformation and the land’s growing rage?ĭomestic violence, sexual assault (mentioned), drugging/roofies, abduction/imprisonment, gun use, violence against women, systemic racism (discussed), blood, body horror, death/dying, grief, animal attack, pet death (brief mention), emetophobiaĮxclusive dust jacket designed by Dadluna on instagramĪ family is shaken up by an incredibly traumatic event. While one tries to figure out how, why and where her sister disappeared, the other tries to prevent her from getting too close to her mother. The other young woman tries to solve the mystery of her sister’s disappearance which leads her to the wood witch. She is terrified that her mother may be the cause of the disappearing girls from the town’s surrounding forest. One girl is a wood witch who spends her days taking care of her mother who has turned monstrous because of magic gone wrong. This alternates between two perspectives. This month’s title is falls into the southern gothic tradition with sapphic love interests. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick’s terms…until he discovers the ALC’s mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own.Ī furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: the cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all.
Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.īut when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him-the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. But Delaney and Colton discover the cost of opening the doors between worlds when they find themselves up against something old and nameless, an enemy they need to destroy before it tears them - and their forbidden partnership - apart. and the voices she hears calling to her from the shadows.ĭelaney wants to keep her distance from Colton - she seems to be the only person on campus who finds him more arrogant than charming - yet after a Godbole student turns up dead, she and Colton are forced to form a tenuous alliance, plummeting down a rabbit-hole of deeply buried university secrets. Now, twelve years later, Delaney Meyers-Petrov has stumbled back into his orbit, but Colton's been ordered to keep far away from the new girl. Quite impossibly, he woke several weeks later at the feet of a green-eyed little girl.
But her semester gets off to a rocky start as she faces professors who won't accommodate her disability, and a pretentious upperclassman fascinated by Delaney's unusual talents.Ĭolton Price died when he was nine years old. So when she's accepted into a prestigious program at Godbole University that trains students to slip between parallel worlds, she's excited for the chance to prove herself. Delaney Meyers-Petrov is tired of being seen as fragile just because she's Deaf.
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