Nox Winters and the Midnight Wolf
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Publisher Description
The first book in a rich, eerie middle grade fantasy duology full of magic, monsters, and miles and miles of untamed forest, from the author of The Prince of Nowhere. Motivated by desperation and brotherhood, a boy must venture deep into the Nightwood to find a cure for his mysteriously sick brother. Perfect for fans of Over the Garden Wall and Serafina and the Black Cloak.
For twelve-year-old Nox Winters, the town of Evergreen isn’t home—it’s a tourist trap in middle-of-nowhere Maine for amateur cryptozoologists hoping to spot its infamous legend, a batlike creature known as the Evergreen Devil. But his twin brother, Noah, has been wasting away from an illness that has left medical professionals stumped, and the doctors here in Evergreen are his last hope. And Nox goes where Noah goes.
But as Noah’s condition worsens, Nox begins to suspect that Evergreen is doing more harm than good—and that there might be some truth to its tales of fearsome cryptids and mysterious disappearances. When Noah falls into a deep sleep that Nox can’t wake him from, Nox’s only chance at saving him lies in the surrounding forest; there, he discovers a hidden world where it’s always nighttime, full of powerful magic, supernatural creatures, and capricious minor gods. Nox must venture deeper into an endless night and successfully bargain with the terrifying Keepers of the forest for a cure to Noah’s ailment or else neither twin will leave Evergreen alive.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Twelve-year-old identical twin brothers Nox and Noah Winters had never been apart, until Noah was sent to live with their mother's oncologist friends Weston and Aster Day to treat his mysterious worsening condition, the symptoms of which includes spreading rashes and sores. Soon, however, Nox joins Noah at his dwellings in "middle-of-nowhere" Evergreen, Maine, where Nox chafes at his new environment, worries about his brother, and distrusts the Days, especially their daughter Thea. But when he catches a glowing, six-eyed, wolf-like creature stalking Noah at night and stealing something "golden and bright" from his chest—and Noah falls into a coma thereafter—Nox reluctantly enlists Thea as his companion in investigating. Together, they enter the otherworldly, eternally dark Nightwood, hoping it contains the secret to saving Noah. As they brave Nightwood's many dangers, the duo unravels family secrets and realizes not all is as it seems. In this creepy duology opener, Hassan (The Summer Queen) unspools a spine-tingling tale packed with riddles, magic, and mystery in which the brothers' fierce bond grounds the more fantastical elements of the Nightwood's original and evocative mythology. Main characters read as white. Ages 8–up.
