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Pan Macmillan Burn Our Bodies Down
Book Synopsis'Twisty and unnerving' – Holly Jackson, author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.From the author of the bestselling Wilder Girls comes a twisty thriller about a girl whose past has always been a mystery – until she decides to return to her mother's hometown, where history has a tendency to repeat itself . . .Ever since Margot was born, it's been just her and her mother. No answers to Margot's questions. No history to hold on to. Just the two of them, stuck in their run-down apartment, struggling to get along.But that's not enough for Margot. She wants family. She wants a past. And when she finds a photograph pointing her to a town called Phalene, she leaves. But when Margot gets there, it's not what she bargained for.Margot's mother left for a reason. But was it to hide her past? Or was it to protect Margot from what's still there?Burn Our Bodies Down is a blistering horror-thriller from Rory Power that will grip you from its very first page, and won't let you go until long after you've put it down . . .Trade ReviewWow this was amazing. Rory Power does it again! Burn Our Bodies Down is a masterpiece: an incredible and unnerving mystery that will creep up on you, twisty and labyrinthine, like the eerie cornfields of its setting. -- Holly Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of A Good Girl’s Guide to MurderRory Power’s prose hits like a lightning strike in this deliriously creepy tale, the kind of slow-crawling horror that’ll keep your nightmares up at night. -- Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel WoodWith this bloodcurdling blend of agriculture, advanced genetics, and interpersonal turmoil, Rory Power reminds us that seemingly disparate things in life can come together in horrifying ways. I will keep a candle lit after this one. -- Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear MartinGritty and strange . . . utterly compelling. * Booklist, starred review *Creates a vivid world with a gothic horror–like setting . . . A riveting, often frightening read. * Publishers Weekly, starred review *
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Random House USA Inc Burn Our Bodies Down
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Blackstone Publishing Burn Our Bodies Down
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Random House USA Inc Burn Our Bodies Down
Book Synopsis[A] deliriously creepy tale...that''ll keep your nightmares up at night. --Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel WoodFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Wilder Girls comes a feverishly twisty thriller about a girl whose past has always been a mystery--until she decides to return to her mother''s hometown . . . where history has a tendency to repeat itself.Ever since Margot was born, it''s been just her and her mother, struggling to get along. But that''s not enough for Margot. She wants family. She wants a past. And she may have just found the answer: A photograph, pointing her to a town called Phalene. Only, when Margot gets there, it''s not what she bargained for.As soon as they see her face, everyone in town knows who Margot belongs to. It''s unmistakable--she''s a Nielsen. And when a mysterious girl who could be Margot''s twin is pulled from a fire, Margot realizes that her mother left Phalene for a reason. But was it to hide her past? Or was it to protect Margot from what''s still there?The only thing Margot knows for sure is there''s poison in their family tree, and their roots are dug so deeply into Phalene that now that she''s there, she might never escape.Praise for Wilder Girls:4 STARRED REVIEWS!Fresh and horrible and beautiful....readers will be consumed and altered by Wilder Girls.-NPRThis thrilling saga...is sure to be one of the season''s most talked-about books, in any genre.--EWThe perfect kind of story for our current era.--HypableYour new favorite book.--Cosmopolitan
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Random House USA Inc Wilder Girls
Book SynopsisAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!The perfect kind of story for our current era.—HypableFeatured in Vulture’s 11 Books to Read If You Already Miss Yellowjackets!From the author of Burn Our Bodies Down, a feminist Lord of the Flies about three best friends living in quarantine at their island boarding school, and the lengths they go to uncover the truth of their confinement when one disappears. This fresh debut is a mind-bending novel unlike anything you''ve read before.It''s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty''s life out from under her.It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don''t dare wander outside the school''s fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything.But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there''s more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.And don''t miss Rory Power''s second novel, Burn Our Bodies Down!Praise for Wilder Girls:4 STARRED REVIEWS!Take Annihilation, add a dash of Contagion, set it at an all-girls'' academy, and you''ll arrive at Rory Power''s occasionally shocking and always gripping Wilder Girls.--Refinery29This thrilling saga...is sure to be one of the season''s most talked-about books, in any genre.--EWFresh and horrible and beautiful....readers will be consumed and altered by Wilder Girls.--NPR
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