Overview

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Wilder Girls comes a new twisty thriller about a girl whose past has always been a mystery--until she decides to return to her mother's hometown ... where history has a tendency to repeat itself. Ever since Margot was born, it's been just her and her mother. No answers to Margot's questions about what came before. No history to hold on to. No relative to speak of. Just the two of them, stuck in their run-down apartment, struggling to get along. But that's not enough for Margot. She wants family. She wants a past. And she just found the key she needs to get it: A photograph, pointing her to a town called Phalene. Pointing her home. Only, when Margot gets there, it's not what she bargained for. Margot's mother left for a reason. But was it to hide her past? Or was it to protect Margot from what's still there? The only thing Margot knows for sure is there's poison in their family tree, and their roots are dug so deeply into Phalene that now that she's there, she might never escape.

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"""Power creates a vivid world with a gothic horror-like setting...that makes for a riveting, often frightening read."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"" ""Strong, suspenseful writing and pitch-perfect touches of horror...The growing sense that something is dreadfully wrong will keep readers plowing through the pages."" -- ""Shelf Awareness"" ""A late sf twist folds seamlessly into the character-driven story, and Margot's narration, laced with the anxieties she learned during childhood, is a raw nerve. Gritty and strange, this sophomore novel is utterly compelling."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""As twisted as it is beautiful."" -- ""Hypable on Wilder Girls"" ""Fresh and horrible and beautiful...Readers will be consumed and altered by Wilder Girls."" -- ""NPR on Wilder Girls"" ""There's something feral and ferocious about this book."" -- ""Refinery29 on Wilder Girls"" ""Burn Our Bodies Down is a masterpiece, an incredible and unnerving mystery that will creep up on you, twisty and labyrinthine, like the eerie cornfields of its setting."" -- ""Holly Jackson, author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder"" ""With this bloodcurdling blend of agriculture, advanced genetics, and interpersonal turmoil, Rory Power reminds us that seemingly disparate things in life can come together in horrifying ways. I will keep a candle lit after this one."" -- ""Nic Stone, author of Dear Martin"""

With this bloodcurdling blend of agriculture, advanced genetics, and interpersonal turmoil, Rory Power reminds us that seemingly disparate things in life can come together in horrifying ways. I will keep a candle lit after this one. -- Nic Stone, author of Dear Martin Burn Our Bodies Down is a masterpiece, an incredible and unnerving mystery that will creep up on you, twisty and labyrinthine, like the eerie cornfields of its setting. -- Holly Jackson, author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder There's something feral and ferocious about this book. -- Refinery29 on Wilder Girls Fresh and horrible and beautiful...Readers will be consumed and altered by Wilder Girls. -- NPR on Wilder Girls As twisted as it is beautiful. -- Hypable on Wilder Girls A late sf twist folds seamlessly into the character-driven story, and Margot's narration, laced with the anxieties she learned during childhood, is a raw nerve. Gritty and strange, this sophomore novel is utterly compelling. -- Booklist (starred review) Strong, suspenseful writing and pitch-perfect touches of horror...The growing sense that something is dreadfully wrong will keep readers plowing through the pages. -- Shelf Awareness Power creates a vivid world with a gothic horror-like setting...that makes for a riveting, often frightening read. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

With this bloodcurdling blend of agriculture, advanced genetics, and interpersonal turmoil, Rory Power reminds us that seemingly disparate things in life can come together in horrifying ways. I will keep a candle lit after this one. -- Nic Stone, author of Dear Martin Burn Our Bodies Down is a masterpiece, an incredible and unnerving mystery that will creep up on you, twisty and labyrinthine, like the eerie cornfields of its setting. -- Holly Jackson, author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder There's something feral and ferocious about this book. -- Refinery29 on Wilder Girls Fresh and horrible and beautiful...Readers will be consumed and altered by Wilder Girls. -- NPR on Wilder Girls As twisted as it is beautiful. -- Hypable on Wilder Girls

Author Information

Rory Power grew up in Boston, received her undergraduate degree at Middlebury College, and went on to earn an MA in prose fiction from the University of East Anglia. She lives in Rhode Island. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls and Burn Our Bodies Down. Lauren Ezzo is a Chicago-based audiobook narrator and commercial voice talent. A Michigan native and Hope College alumna, at this writing she has narrated over 100 titles for authors including Catherine Ryan Hyde, Georgia Clark, Adam Rapp, M. Dressler, Christopher Rice, Kirk Lynn, Lauren James, and Dot Hutchison. She has won multiple awards for her narration, including several ""Best of the Year"" lists, and several Earphones Awards. In 2016, her performance of The Light Fantastic, by Sarah Combs, conarrated with Todd Haberkorn, was named one of AudioFile's best books of the year. She was accorded the same honor in 2017 from School Library Journal for her narration of To Stay Alive: Mary Ann Graves and the Tragic Journey of the Donner Party. In 2018, she was Audie Award-nominated as part of a full cast of narrators for Best Original Work, Nevertheless We Persisted, performing two pieces-one of which she authored. She is a proud member of the Audio Publishers Association, and a lifelong bookworm.

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