Reliquary
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- Pedido anticipado
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- Se espera: 11 ago 2026
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- USD 14.99
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- Pedido anticipado
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- USD 14.99
Descripción editorial
A young woman is lured to her late fiancé's remote island estate—only to uncover eerie family secrets, a haunting past, and a monstrous hunger stirring beneath the sea in this deliciously atmospheric horror debut from New York Times bestselling author Hannah Whitten.
When Claire’s fiancé mysteriously dies of an unknown neurological illness, she’s prepared to sink back into the lonely life she lived before. Orphaned by a freak boating accident in her childhood, she never expected to find connection like she did with Elias, anyway. Their relationship wasn’t perfect—his coldness, his secrets, his strange aversion to the ocean—but what relationship is?
When Elias’s family reaches out—his incredibly wealthy family, from whom he was estranged—and invites Claire to a three-day wake at Harrow Point, their family home on a private island, Claire is given the chance to find family again. To belong to something, just like she’s always wanted. Just like Elias knew she was desperate to have.
Even if that family is a little strange. Even if their coastal home stirs up memories of the accident that killed her parents and sister. Even if Ash, Elias’s older brother, seems insistent on Claire leaving as soon as possible.
As she dives deeper into the world of Harrow Point, she will uncover the nature of her own traumatic connection to the ocean. There is something swimming in the bowels of Harrow Point, and it is hungry…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestselling romantasy author Whitten (For the Wolf) pivots to horror with this sleek subterranean chiller about the bloody cost of entry into the 1%. Claire Sutherland is reeling from the shocking death of her fiancé, Elias Ashbury, when his incredibly rich and mysteriously estranged family invites her to his funeral on their private island. She has no choice but to go, despite knowing almost nothing about her destination or the history behind Elias's feud with his family. Things start off promisingly with Elias's mother but quickly go downhill when Claire is led into the Ashbury mansion: a half-submerged castle built into a sea-facing cliff. It becomes clear that the Ashburys intend something far more sinister than a simple funeral service—and that Claire's destiny was intertwined with Elias's long before they met. Whitten creates a stunning gothic seaside backdrop for a story about the lengths to which the mega rich will go to hold on to their fortunes, and the grieving Claire proves a gutsy heroine, though it takes her some time to find her footing against these villainous robber barons. Things get slightly murky at the end with a twist that feels a little underexplored. Still, the impressive atmospherics and genuine scares make for a fun horror story that may have readers reconsidering their next trip to the beach.
