The Whispering Dark
The bewitching academic rivals to lovers slow burn debut fantasy
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'A haunting, dreamlike tale of sacrifice, love, and obsession' Cassandra Clare, #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of THE LAST HOURS
'A paranormal thriller laced with twists and revelations that will stop your heart' Aiden Thomas, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of CEMETERY BOYS
NINTH HOUSE meets THE ATLAS SIX in the haunting debut everyone on TikTok is talking about . . .
Delaney Meyers-Petrov is tired of being seen as fragile just because she's Deaf. 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. But her semester gets off to a rocky start as she faces professors who won't accommodate her disability, and a pretentious upperclassman, Colton Price, who seems determined to despise her.
Colton Price died when he was nine years old. Quite impossibly, he woke at the feet of a green-eyed little girl. When she told him to live, he obeyed. Now, twelve years later, Delaney has stumbled back into his orbit, but Colton's been ordered to keep far away from the new girl... and the voices she hears calling to her from the shadows.
Delaney 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. 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.
'THE WHISPERING DARK will burrow into your bones and nestle deep, refusing to let go. Kelly Andrew's prose is aching and lyrical, the mark of a master in the making. This is a story I won't soon forget' Hafsah Faizal, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of WE HUNT THE FLAME
'Ivory tower academia, but make it cosmic horror. THE WHISPERING DARK seethes with forbidden romance and truly terrifying shadows' Hannah Whitten, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of THE WILDERWOOD duology
'Eerie and seductive, THE WHISPERING DARK is a masterclass in dark academia. Andrew dazzles with exquisite prose, sizzling romantic tension, and a clever, twisting plot that will keep you breathless until the very end' Allison Saft, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of A FAR WILDER MAGIC
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Andrew's lavish debut, redolent with poetic prose and fantastical happenings, follows 18-year-old Delaney "Lane" Meyers-Petrov, who's Deaf and uses a cochlear implant. Desperate to forge her own identity and sick of being coddled by her family ever since a childhood near-death experience resulted in hearing loss, Lane applies for and receives a scholarship to Howe University's elite Godbole School of Neo-Anthropological Studies, a program considered a "magnet for those who dabbled in the occult" and rumored to teach their students how to step into different worlds. Despite her initial excitement on entering the program, she struggles to navigate a lack of accommodations, ableist professors, her own internalized ableism, and her arrogant and recalcitrant TA, 21-year-old Colton Price. But when Godbole students turn up dead, and she discovers that Colton is a member of a secret occult club that's messing with the boundaries of life and death, she must develop her own burgeoning supernatural abilities to solve the mystery. Andrew handily weaves swoony romance and ominous horror elements to deliver a lush dark academia narrative in which death is always on the horizon. Characters default to white. Ages 14–up.
