by Alma Katsu
First published 2020
Annie Hebbley works as a maid aboard the Titanic during its maiden voyage in 1912. Strange events plague the ship from departure. Passengers vanish without explanation. Others die suddenly. Wealthy travelers like Madeleine Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim grow uneasy. Annie notices the disturbing pattern alongside passenger Mark Fletcher. Something malevolent stalks the corridors. Then the ship hits the iceberg and sinks. Years pass. World War One rages. Annie now serves as a nurse aboard the Britannic, the Titanic's sister ship converted into a hospital vessel. During her sixth voyage, she tends to wounded soldiers. One unconscious patient makes her freeze. The face belongs to Mark Fletcher. Annie knows this cannot be possible. She watched Mark die when the Titanic went down. Yet here he lies, breathing and alive. The trauma of that terrible night returns as Annie confronts an impossible reality that challenges everything she believes about survival and death.
Genres: historical-fiction, 20th-century, mystery, horror
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful
Tropes: impossible-reality, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Britannic, Titanic
Period: 1912, World War One
432 pages · Paperback · Bantam Press
Content warnings: death, violence