The Hounding: A Novel by Xenobe Purvis Romantasy craving darkness and depravity instead

craving darkness and depravity instead of light and love

dwells the mysterious Hawthorn family

The emperor's reign has lasted for decades

the self-absorbed cast and jaded crew each make her acquaintance atop the island’s tallest and most desolate peak

But when I fall into her care after an injury lands me in her burn unit

The Hounding: A Novel by Xenobe Purvis Romantasy craving darkness and depravity insteadA wildly inventive riff on the Gothic form, with enough suspense and mounting dread to rival Shirley Jacksons The Lottery. The New York Times Book Review Even before the rumors about the Mansfield girls begin, Little Nettlebed is a village steeped in the uncanny, from strange creatures that wash up on the riverbank to portentous ravens gathering on the roofs of people about to die. But when the villagers start to hear barking, and one claims to see