Blackest Night

Left alone in a cabin in the jungle, a woman fights to keep at bay the threats from without and within

Rosa has left her comfortable urban life to join Gene in building a house in the jungle with their own hands, in a natural paradise right at the edge of the sea. But money is tight and their half-finished home needs protecting, so when Gene must return to the city to renew his visa, he goes alone. Over the days that follow, the moon wanes and the nights grow darker, until Rosa can scarcely discern jungle from sea from sky, and the landscape seems to merge into a terrifying hellscape teeming with hidden forces. Which is more malevolent, the bats and snakes and tarantulas, or the local men with their lingering gazes who know she is on her own? Then there are the memories that never cease to haunt her, as her solitude becomes absolute. A machete at her side even as she sleeps, she cannot stave off the encroaching shadows and their reminder of her own impenetrable desires, and the violence of which she is capable.

A gripping novel about the danger and beauty of the unknown, Blackest Night inspires awe and unease in equal measure.