Black Point
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- 予約注文
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- リリース予定日：2026年7月28日
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- ¥1,400
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In an insular small town steeped in Norse traditions, a teen’s developing romance with a newcomer becomes fraught as dark secrets from the past rise to the surface in this gorgeously atmospheric mystery by New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline West.
Lucia Sorenson holds on hard to the things she loves. Her tiny hometown clings to the bluffs above the Mississippi River, threatened by weather and time. Unlike most people her age, Lucia plans to stay after graduation and help her grandfather run the Viking Museum of Black Point. Maybe then she can keep everything her ancestors built from washing away.
When the Black Point Hotel, a supposedly haunted local landmark, is bought by an outsider, the town is shaken—and for Lucia, fresh changes arrive in the form of the owner’s nephew, Max. As Lucia gets to know Max, she begins to question her role in the town’s rituals and to see the place, and herself, with new eyes.
But the town is flooding, and old secrets are rising to the surface. Soon Lucia will have to choose between the home she thought she knew and the hideous truths hidden underneath.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The citizens of Black Point, Wis., will stop at nothing to protect their Nordic history and heritage in this spine-tingling supernatural ecological thriller from West (Last Things). Rising high school senior Lucia Sorenson's summer plans involve helping her grandfather—recently recovered from a heart attack—run the Viking History Museum of Black Point as well as looking after him and the other Oldies, descendants of the town's first residents. Lucia's hometown attracts tourists curious about its Viking roots, but the white-cued denizens are suspicious of outsiders whom they perceive as overstaying their welcome, including teenage Max Nazarian, who's helping to renovate a long-abandoned, haunted hotel. More concerning than newcomers, though, is the annual rising of the Mississippi River, which portends record flood heights—and threatens to unearth long-buried secrets from the town's past. Interspersed throughout Lucia's piercing present-day perspective are letters from a runaway teen newly arrived in Black Point in 1986, who relays the town's history of flooding while tantalizingly unraveling the origins of the hauntings and their connection to the town. Dual timelines collide as the water, and the stakes, rise, culminating in a suspenseful and downright gruesome tale. Ages 14–up.
