A Dark and Starless Forest

In this contemporary fantasy, a girl must confront the dark thing in the forest and the growing darkness in herself when her siblings start to disappear. She will risk anything to protect her family, even if it means embracing the darkness.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 26 October 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

In this captivating and atmospheric contemporary fantasy, 2022 Locus Award Top Ten Finalist, a young girl finds herself confronting the dark entity that lurks within the forest, and the growing darkness within herself as her siblings begin to disappear. (*Buzzfeed)

Derry and her eight siblings reside in an isolated house by the lake, cut off from the rest of the world by an eerie and foreboding forest. Their guardians, who raised them after their families abandoned them, claim it is for their protection, as the world is not safe for individuals with magical abilities. Derry feels relatively safe, until the night her eldest sister vanishes. Jane and Derry had vowed never to enter the forest again, following a previous trip that ended in blood. However, Derry is certain that she saw Jane enter the trees. As another sibling goes missing, and their guardians' true intentions become apparent, Derry realizes that safety is no longer an option. She is willing to risk everything to protect the family she has left. Even if it means returning to the forest that has been haunting her with the voices of her missing siblings.

As Derry spends more time amidst the trees, her magic grows more potent, and so does the darkness within her, the viciousness she attempts to suppress. However, rescuing her siblings from the forest may require her to embrace the darkness. And that could be the most perilous thing of all.

Weight: 284g
Dimension: 202 x 135 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780063308770