A School Library Journal Best Young Adult Book of 2024 · A Reactor Notable YA Horror Book of
2024 · A Parade Best Horror Book of 2024 From Gillian Flynn Books a lyrical young adult
horror by debut author Wen-yi Lee that's perfect for fans of She Is a Haunting Stephen King's
IT and The Haunting of Hill House . "Wen-yi Lee has crafted a dark and compelling
supernatural mystery buoyed by earnestly written queer-centric characters. I am enthralled!"
-Gillian Flynn Growing up in Slater Isadora Chang never felt at ease in the repressive small
town even before she realized she was bisexual-but after the deaths of two childhood friends
Slater went from feeling claustrophobic to suffocating. So Isa took off before the town could
swallow her too. Even though it meant leaving everything she knew behind including her last
surviving friend Mason. When Isa's abusive father dies however she agrees to come back
from art school just long enough to collect the inheritance. But then Mason turns up at the
cemetery with a revelation and a plea: their friends were murdered by an evil that haunts the
town and he needs Isa to help stop it-before it takes anyone else. When Isa begins to hear
strange songs on the wind and eerie artwork fills her sketchbook that she can't recall drawing
she's forced to stop running and confront her past. Because something is waiting in the shadows
of Slater's valleys something that feeds on the pain and heartbreak of its children. Whatever
it is it knows Isa's back . . . and it won't let her escape again. Wen-yi Lee's young adult
debut is an intimate and gripping exploration of trauma healing and the lasting power of
friendship as a runaway teen must finally face the sinister forces that defined her childhood
and in doing so demand her right to survive.
