Ani Katz – författare

"Absorbing and uncanny." -Tracy Sierra, author of Nightwatching A summer retreat to an elite island enclave tied to a Big Tech company becomes a mother's worst nightmare in this gripping thriller

After months of financial strain and escalating arguments, Caroline is relieved when her husband, Adam, secures a job at Corridor, a prestigious Big Tech company. Though his long hours on top-secret projects often leave Caroline alone with their newborn son, Gabriel, the life-changing income seems worth the sacrifice.

When Adam suggests a summer retreat to Haven, the exclusive island community popular with Corridor employees, Caroline agrees, hoping the sun-soaked paradise will help Adam relax and bring their family closer. But she can't shake the feeling that something isn't quite right about the town. Though Adam assures her of their safety, the locals' behavior is oddly secretive and ritualistic-even cultish. It's clear that Corridor hasn't resolved tensions about the way the company is transforming the island. And it doesn't help that Adam's colleagues seem to have a few strange beliefs of their own.

When Caroline wakes to discover that Gabriel is missing, her worst fears are confirmed. Desperate and unsure of whom to trust, she must race to find her son-and pull back the curtain on this elite enclave-before he is lost to the island forever. 

Tensely plotted and terrifyingly prescient, Haven is a taut, darkly compelling exploration of the costs of innovation, the far limits of human progress, and the risks we're willing to take for a brighter future.

_______________________________''Our lives were good – great, even. We were happy and secure. We had everything we needed. There was no way for anyone to know – least of all me – that it would all end the way it did.’Thomas Martin is everything a man is supposed to be. He has a beautiful wife and a loving daughter, a good house on Long Island, a flourishing career at a prestigious Manhattan advertising firm. He’s a good son and brother, taking it upon himself to support his ailing mother and adult sisters. He knows it’s his God-given duty to shield them, his girls, from the everyday horrors of the world.But he has failed, and unspeakable tragedy has befallen his family.Now, Thomas struggles to come to terms with what has become of his life. If only he can tell the story as he saw it, he believes he might find out how and why things unravelled so horribly; how he failed so disastrously.Because Thomas Martin is a good man.A Good Man is a dark and gripping novel of psychological suspense about a family man, in the wake of a horrifying act, trying to work out where he went wrong. It is the debut of a bold and brilliant new talent.________________________________________________‘Ani Katz has created an edgy debut with a disturbingly unforgettable ending.’ The Skinny