A small town is transformed by dark magic when strange apple trees begin bearing fruit in this
new masterpiece of horror from the bestselling author of Wanderers and The Book of Accidents .
It's autumn in Harrow but something is changing in the town besides the season. Because in
that town there is an orchard and in that orchard grows a new sort of apple: strange and
beautiful with skin so red it's nearly black. Take a bite of one of these apples and you will
you will become stronger. More vital. More yourself you will believe. But soon your appetite
for the apples and their peculiar gifts will keep growing - and become darker. This is what
happens when the townsfolk discover the secret of the orchard. Soon it seems that everyone is
consumed by an obsession with the magic of the apples . . . and what's the harm if it is
making them all happier more confident more powerful? But now the leaves are falling. The
days grow darker. And a stranger has come to town a stranger who knows Harrow's secrets.
Because it's harvest time and the town will soon reap what it has sown.
