The Afterdark
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Publisher Description
Queer horror at a boarding school with a Lovecraftian twist in this new YA novel from E. Latimer, author of the acclaimed The Strange and Deadly Portraits of Bryony Gray.
Northcroft is an elite boarding school with a deadly secret. Each night as the bell tolls and the shutters slam down, cutting off the outside world, the Afterdark descends, turning the surrounding old growth forest into a macabre copy of itself. A negative photograph crawling with horrors.
Evie Laurent is certain of one thing from the moment she sees Holland Morgan on the front steps of Northcroft: she wants to know everything there is to know about her. But there are some things about Evie herself that are better kept secret. Especially the fact that she let her sister drown. And that it's getting harder to ignore her dark impulses . . .
Holland Morgan knows falling for Evie is just one more terrible choice in her long history of terrible choices. The problem is, she's not sure she cares.
As attraction turns slowly to obsession, they find themselves playing a dangerous game. Something out there is calling to each of them. Beckoning to the shadows within.
Do they fight the call and protect one another, or answer and embrace the darkness?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When 18-year-old Evie Laurent's twin sister Ada slips off of a dock and drowns during an argument, Evie is secretly relieved to be free from her torment. Sent to the west coast of Canada to attend elite boarding school Northcroft in Ada's place, Evie looks forward to a fresh start away from the memory of her manipulative and abusive twin. She's excited to learn that one of her dorm mates is Holland Morgan, a famous child actress and Evie's former crush. But even as romantic sparks fly upon their reunion, Evie is unnerved by the strange and sinister undertones of Northcroft: the sundown curfew, the automated blackout blinds, the masked and powerful secret society that runs the school, and the suspicious silence of her father, Principal Blackwood. As Evie investigates, she is forced to reconcile with her inexplicable attraction to the sinister forest surrounding the school and the darkness lurking within herself. While some characters are unevenly developed, Latimer (Escape to Witch City) capably explores violent urges and dangerous obsession in this dark and twisted thriller interspersed with intense and steamy moments of sapphic romance via Evie and Holland's alternating first-person perspectives. Evie and Holland are white. Ages 14–up.
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