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by Catriona Ward

Die Nowhere-Kinder warten auf dich ...

Hoch in den Bergen liegt Nowhere – ein grünes Tal, umgeben von Felswänden. Einst gehörte es einem Filmstar, der dort das Nowhere House errichtete, um seinen Ruhm zu entkommen und seine Verbrechen zu verbergen. Als das Haus in Flammen aufging, fand man die Gräber junger Männer, die nie heimkehrten.Heute ist das Tal Zuflucht für weggelaufene Kinder – ein Ort, den Erwachsene nicht betreten dürfen. Von diesem Versprechen angezogen, macht sich die vierzehnjährige Riley mit ihrem Bruder Oliver mitten in der Nacht auf den Weg dothin. Sie fliehen vor ihrem grausamen Cousin und hoffen, dort eine neuen Familie zu finden. Doch die Nowhere-Kinder verteidigen ihre Geheimnisse mit aller Kraft. Denn in den Ruinen lauert etwas Dunkles, das einen schrecklichen Preis für die Zuflucht fordert …

Kindle Edition

Expected publication February 10, 2027

About the author

CATRIONA WARD was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. She read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. Her forthcoming novel, Nowhere Burning, will be published by Tor Nightfire in the US and Viper Books in the UK this year. `Her last book, Looking Glass Sound, was a USA Today bestseller. Her fourth novel, the gothic thriller Sundial (2022 - Viper, Tor Nightfire) was Observer Thriller of the Month and a USA Today, CNN and Apple Books selection for best new fiction. Stephen King called Sundial ‘Authentically terrifying…. Do not miss this book.’

Ward’s third breakout novel The Last House on Needless Street (2021 - Viper, Tor Nightfire) won the August Derleth Prize and has been shortlisted for the Kitschies, the British Book Awards, the South Bank Award, and the World Fantasy Award. Esquire magazine listed it as one of the top 25 best horror novels of all time. Rights have been sold in twenty-nine territories, it was a Richard and Judy Book Club selection, a Times Book of the Month, Observer Book of the Month, March Editor’s Pick on Radio 4’s Open Book, a Between the Covers BBC2 book club selection and a Sunday Times bestseller. The Last House on Needless Street is being developed for film by Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish’s production company, The Imaginarium. Stephen King said of The Last House on Needless Street, ‘I was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end. Haven't read anything this exciting since GONE GIRL.’

Ward’s second novel Little Eve (2018 - W&N, Tor Nightfire) won the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award, the August Derleth Prize at the British Fantasy Awards and was a Guardian best book of 2018. Nightfire published Little Eve for the first time in the US in 2022. Ward’s debut Rawblood (2015 - W&N, Sourcebooks) also won the 2016 August Derleth, making her the only woman to have won the prize three times. Her short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and have been shortlisted for various prizes. She lives in London and Devon.

Her short story, The African Painted Dog, is part of The End of The World as We Know It, Tales from The Stand. Introduced by Stephen King, this anthology is the first time authors have been permitted to write in Stephen King;'s universe.