Fawn

Enter the sanctuary and discover the stunning debut folk horror of 2026.🍎 'Unflinching... I loved it' Lucy Rose, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lamb🦌 'Disturbing, seductively written fiction about power and female rage' The Guardian🐾 'Exquisitely unsettling, hauntingly beautiful, and quietly profound. Beware, this book is pretty but it has sharp teeth' Rachel Harrison, New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice🍁 ‘Genuinely beautiful... mixing nature, love, sex and gore, with a palpable sense of rage, betrayal and familial dysfunction at its heart' SFX_______'The devil came on the autumn equinox, as he always did.'Tess Wynne keeps mostly to herself in the hills of Appalachia. Her wildlife sanctuary is a refuge for the wounded and unwanted - and the only home she has left. She has built it carefully, with old rituals and even older bargains with the ominous visitor that comes each year.Then she finds a doe split open on the road.Beside it is the fawn who survived. Red-mouthed. Full set of teeth. Hungry.From the moment Tess brings it home, whispers gather in town. A new pastor starts asking questions. And inside Tess, something primal begins to wake: anger, appetite, the slow understanding that prey is only prey for so long.Dark, tender and eerie, Fawn is a slow-burning folk horror of nature, ritual and feverish femininity - a story about what a woman must become to protect what is hers.*Fawn is published in the US as The Devil Knows Her Name🦌 Readers are feral for FAWN 🦌⭐ 'I want to grind this book into dust and sprinkle it in my coffee. It’s feral.'⭐ 'This book had me reacting OUT LOUD'⭐ 'A perfect amalgamation of horror, feminist rage, and spooky witchcraft'⭐ 'Gets under your skin without really trying'⭐ 'Rachel Harrison meets Grady Hendrix'