![]() ![]() Twenty-two years after Seattle photographer Naomi Shaw survived a stabbing attack when she was 11 while playing in the forest in Chester, Wash. ![]() ![]() One Vaughan cousin is Black all other characters cue as white. YA author Marshall (These Fleeting Shadows) makes her adult debut with a powerful psychological thriller. While Harrow’s mythos is muddled, complex plotting, nightmarish imagery, and haunting prose, coupled with Helen’s equal parts anxious and driven first-person narrative, buoy Marshall’s mystifying tale. Determined to learn why the house haunts her dreams, Helen, aided by her cousins and an enigmatic “Harrow Witch,” agrees, but when she starts falling ill, losing time, and seeing monsters that inexplicably disappear, she worries she may not live long enough to find out. ![]() To inherit it, however, she must live in Harrow for one year. Her mother hasn’t spoken with Helen’s grandparents in a decade, so it’s a shock when, upon her grandfather’s death, he leaves both Harrow and his $40 million estate to Helen. Helen also can’t remember why she and her mother fled Harrowstone Hall (dubbed “Harrow”), their family’s historic estate, when Helen was seven, but she suspects the issues interrelate. Gallant (Greenwillow Books) Tirado, Vincent Burn Down, Rise Up (Sourcebooks Fire) Superior Achievement in Long Fiction Allred, Rebecca J. The Triangle (Raven Tale Publishing) Schwab, V.E. Helen Vaughan, 17, doesn’t know why people instinctively dislike her, nor why she’s plagued by peculiar dreams of her family’s ancestral home, in Marshall’s ( Our Last Echoes) pulse-pounding horror novel. Marshall, Kate Alice These Fleeting Shadows (Viking) Ottone, Robert P. ![]()
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