من تصميم Kelly Andrew
A seductively twisted romance about loyalty, fate, the lengths we go to hide the darkest parts of ourselves . . . and the people who love those parts most of all.
Wyatt Westlock has one plan for the farmhouse she's just inherited — to burn it to the ground. But during her final walkthrough of her childhood home, she makes a shocking discovery in the basement — Peter, the boy she once considered her best friend, strung up in chains and left for dead.
Unbeknownst to Wyatt, Peter has suffered hundreds of ritualistic deaths on her family's property. Semi-immortal, Peter never remains dead for long, but he can't really live, either. Not while he's bound to the farm, locked in a cycle of grisly deaths and painful rebirths. There's only one way for him to break free. He needs to end the Westlock line.
He needs to kill Wyatt.
With Wyatt's parents gone, the spells protecting the property have begun to unravel, and dark, ancient forces gather in the nearby forest. The only way for Wyatt to repair the wards is to work with Peter — the one person who knows how to harness her volatile magic. But how can she trust a boy who's sworn an oath to destroy her? When the past turns up to haunt them in the most unexpected way, they are forced to rely on one another to survive, or else tear each other apart.
A seductively twisted romance about loyalty, fate, the lengths we go to hide the darkest parts of ourselves . . . and the people who love those parts most of all.
Wyatt Westlock has one plan for the farmhouse she's just inherited — to burn it to the ground. But during her final walkthrough of her childhood home, she makes a shocking discovery in the basement — Peter, the boy she once considered her best friend, strung up in chains and left for dead.
Unbeknownst to Wyatt, Peter has suffered hundreds of ritualistic deaths on her family's property. Semi-immortal, Peter never remains dead for long, but he can't really live, either. Not while he's bound to the farm, locked in a cycle of grisly deaths and painful rebirths. There's only one way for him to break free. He needs to end the Westlock line.
He needs to kill Wyatt.
With Wyatt's parents gone, the spells protecting the property have begun to unravel, and dark, ancient forces gather in the nearby forest. The only way for Wyatt to repair the wards is to work with Peter — the one person who knows how to harness her volatile magic. But how can she trust a boy who's sworn an oath to destroy her? When the past turns up to haunt them in the most unexpected way, they are forced to rely on one another to survive, or else tear each other apart.
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Starred review from February 5, 2024
Wyatt Westlock spent every summer growing up at Willow Heath, her father’s rural estate, with her friends James and Peter. When her mother leaves her father—and takes Wyatt with her—she never hears from either boy again. Now 18, Wyatt inherits Willow Heath following her father’s death. She’s determined to burn it all down, until she finds Peter chained in the basement of her former home. She learns that her father had been the steward of an organization that prevents an encroaching evil from seeping into the world, a task accomplished by sinister magic—and by continuously murdering and harvesting Peter’s immortal body. Forced to take her father’s place, Wyatt struggles with her burden; Peter, meanwhile, plots her murder to be free of his own curse. All the while, both teens fight their growing attraction for each other and contend with the monsters in the dark, which are closer than they appear. Andrew (The Whispering Dark) tackles the protagonists’ predicaments with maturity and complexity, and employs lush and exquisite writing to distinguish this gothic tale. Characters cue as white. Ages 13–up. Agent: Josh Adams, Adams Literary.
