First published 2021
Iris Hollow carries a crescent scar at her throat, matching the marks her two older sisters bear from some forgotten childhood incident. At seventeen, she works hard to blend in and escape the strangeness that follows her everywhere. When her eldest sister Grey vanishes without explanation, Iris discovers her quiet life was an illusion. Horned figures begin stalking her through the streets. A dead body crashes through Grey's apartment ceiling. Buried memories claw their way back into her consciousness, bringing images too disturbing to accept. Following the cryptic clues Grey left behind, Iris realizes that finding her sister means confronting the truth about what happened to them as children. Each step forward reveals that Grey has been hiding something monstrous for years. The answers Iris seeks will force her to choose between the safety of ignorance and the terrible cost of knowledge.
Genres: mystery, fantasy, horror, supernatural, thriller, dark-fantasy
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: chosen-one, found-family, hidden-identity, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Grey's Apartment
292 pages · Hardcover · G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Content warnings: body-horror, gore, graphic-violence, mental-illness