The Night That Finds Us All
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
A troubled sailor. A hundred-year-old sailboat. An ancient curse. Welcome to award-winning author John Hornor Jacobs’ nautical nightmare.
It begins and ends as always, with the sea.
Sam Vines is struggling. Her boat is up on the hard and she doesn’t have enough money to get her back in the water. Turns out the snorkelers and the scubadivers are looking for the ultra-luxury boating experience, not the single-handed, rarely sober, snarky stylings of sailboat captain Samantha Vines. So it’s a good thing when her former crewmate Loick asks her to help deliver a massive, hundred-year-old sailboat from Seattle to England. Sam is the only one who can handle the ship’s engine, and did Loick mention that the money is good? It’s very good.
The Blackwatch is a huge boat. An ancient boat. It’s also probably (definitely) haunted.
Sam’s alcohol withdrawal (sobriety is important at sea) has her doubting her senses, but when one crewmate disappears and another has a gruesome accident, she knows that this simple delivery job has spiraled into something sinister.
By turns terrifying, darkly funny, thought-provoking, and heartfelt, The Night That Finds Us All is a seductive, nautical nightmare.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jacobs (A Lush and Seething Hell) sends Florida ship captain Samantha Vineyard into peril in this nerve-rattling maritime horror novel. Too broke to fix her boat, Sam accepts a gig as an engineer on the Blackwatch, a supposedly haunted ship set to sail from Puget Sound to the Panama Canal and then across the Atlantic. She has a complicated history with Loick Archambault, the estranged friend who offers her the job, and the ship's captain, Hank Huntington, and is familiar with most of the crew except for the first mate, a woman called Seabees, and three wealthy wannabe sailors all named Steve, who've paid Hank for the learning experience. During the journey, Sam finds a decrepit journal from the sailboat's first voyage that details the captain's increasingly erratic behavior and fascination with a mysterious ritual. After Sam begins to hear voices, one of the Steves disappears in San Diego, and a crewman falls from a mast in Panama City, where Sam meets a witch who warns her about disasters to come. Jacobs walks a fine line between foreshadowing and telegraphing, but manages to conceal enough surprises to make even seasoned horror fans jump. This delivers the goods.
