The salt grows heavy
(2023)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/KHAW,C

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Fiction FICTION/KHAW,C Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group, [2023]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

106 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781250830913, 1250830915 :, 1250830915, 9781250830913
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"You may think you know how the fairytale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth. And now, her daughters have devoured the kingdom and burned it to ashes. On the run, the mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own. Deep in the eerie, snow-crusted forest, the pair stumble upon a village of ageless children who thirst for blood, and the three "saints" who control them. The mermaid and her doctor must embrace the cruelest parts of their true nature if they hope to survive"--