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A young exorcist faces demons both real and figurative in this searing horror novel from the author of The Year of the Witching and An Academy for Liars.At eight years old, Juliet Godfrey was violently possessed by a demon who had already claimed the lives of her parents. When it proved unexpellable, she was sent to the gothic halls of the Godfrey Home for Demonically Afflicted Children, where she grew up under the mentorship and care of exorcist Luther Godfrey—and formed an uneasy truce with the demon inside of her.Twenty years after her possession, a steely-eyed Juliet travels the country as an exorcist herself, removing powerful (and often violent) demons from their human hosts, and occasionally referring the rare children like her, who are infected with particularly dangerous demons, to the Godfrey Home.When Luther Godfrey dies following the unexplained disappearance of Seth, one of his troubled young charges, Juliet returns home for the first time in many years to attend his funeral. But upon her arrival, Juliet discovers that Luther left Godfrey House, and the care of all its students, to her. As the house’s new matron, it’s Juliet’s responsibility to protect Luther’s legacy and find his missing charge, Seth, before the dark forces that stalk him claim his life…and his soul.

They've been waiting for you... And now you're finally home.Maria hasn't returned to her birthplace since her mother, the town’s spiritual medium, cast her out. Now, she can no longer remember anything about the town of Talalora, or about her childhood. But when her mother dies suddenly, Maria is summoned back to claim her inheritance.Yet Talalora seems a strange and rotten place. Outsiders refuse to enter its walls, the rice fields have turned barren and the flower trees have wilted. The town is devoted to a lone priest, Father Benito, who declares that Maria’s inheritance must be earned. To stake her claim, she must brave a series of trials pitting her against relatives she’s never known.Silently watching over all is a huge effigy, bursting with santan flowers, which towers over the town square. And Maria slowly begins to remember. The Diwata, a forest spirit, blesses and curses Talalora in equal measure. Where she casts her gaze, the land grows lush and fertile. But now the crops are failing, and the goddess has become cruel. The townspeople whisper that she must be pacified by a new medium, a new bride. And, too late, Maria realises that the inheritance she is fighting to claim, may be the very thing her mother tried to save her from.Something sickly is growing in Talalora, and Maria should have stayed far away…

Enter the sanctuary at your own risk. The primal and unsettling tale of just how far a woman must go to protect nature and its inhabitants, perfect for fans of Francine Toon and Andrew Michael Hurley.🍎 'Unflinching... I loved it' Lucy Rose, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lamb🦌 'Beware, this book is pretty but it has sharp teeth' Rachel Harrison, New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice🍁 'Disturbing, seductively written fiction about power and female rage' Guardian'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.🦌 Readers are feral for FAWN 🦌🦌 'One of my top books of the year!'🦌 'This book had me reacting OUT LOUD'🦌 'Not one to be missed!!!'🦌 'Gets under your skin without really trying'🦌 'A feminist woodland horror-fest with so much bite'

Off-cum-den (old Yorkshire dialect): off-comer; outsider; one who doesn’t belong.South Yorkshire, 1984.From his garden shed, thirteen-year-old Chrissy-boy Foster is watching his world fall apart. His dad’s in prison for a picket-line fight. His mum is on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Sadie — Chrissy-boy’s sister — is kept locked in her room. ‘She’s poorly’ is all he’s ever told. But despite his sheltered upbringing, Chrissy-boy knows there’s much more to her frightening condition.When his dog runs away, Chrissy-boy teams up with two other school outsiders: Aasha, a Kashmiri girl newly moved onto the council estate; and Mickey, from the old traveller family that runs the local scrapyard. Their search pulls them into Black Carr, the sprawling primal forest that edges the council estates of Rother valley. Beneath those woods, something is waking — something ancient and evil, something that connects their families and their secrets, their guilt.As the three friends journey deeper into the heart of the valley, they begin to uncover the horror that their parents and grandparents had tried to bury . . . but that the land itself refuses to forget.