Neverworld Wake

Enter a realm where fears are physical and memories come alive in this absorbing psychological suspense thriller with a twist, from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics and Night Film.

Once upon a time, back at Darrow-Harker School, Beatrice Hartley and her five best friends were the cool kids, the beautiful ones. Then the shocking death of Jim–their creative genius and Beatrice’s boyfriend–changed everything.

One year after graduation, Beatrice is returning to Wincroft–the seaside estate where they spent so many nights sharing secrets, crushes, plans to change the world–hoping she’ll get to the bottom of the dark questions gnawing at her about Jim’s death.

But as the night plays out in a haze of stilted jokes and unfathomable silence, Beatrice senses she’s never going to know what really happened.

Then a mysterious man knocks on the door. Blithely, he announces the impossible: time for them has become stuck, snagged on a splinter that can only be removed if the former friends make the harshest of decisions.

Now Beatrice has one last shot at answers . . . and at life.
And so begins the Neverworld Wake.

Night Film

“Mysterious and even a little head-spinning, an amazing act of imagination.”

Dean Baquet, The New York Times

On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova—a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than thirty years.

For McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova’s dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself.

Driven by revenge, curiosity, and a thirst for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova’s eerie, hypnotic world.

The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career.  This time he might lose even more.

Night Film Decoder

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

“Part Huck Finn, part Holden Caulfield, part Fran Leibowitz, and part Nora Ephron.”

Harper’s

Blue van Meer is a sixteen-year-old genius with a head full of literary, philosophical, and scientific knowledge.  And yet, she could use some friends.  Upon entering the elite St. Gallway School, she finds some—a clique of gorgeous eccentrics known as the Bluebloods.  A drowning, a terrifying camping trip, and one hanging later, Blue finds herself puzzling out a byzantine murder mystery.  Nabokov meets Agatha Christie (then invites the rest of the Western Canon to the party) in this riotous debut—with visual aids drawn by the author—which has won over readers of all ages.

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