Ghost Wood Song

Sawkill Girls meets&nbsp;The Hazel Wood&nbsp;in this lush and eerie debut, where the boundary between reality and nightmares is as thin as the veil between the living and the dead.&nbsp; If I could have a fiddle made of Daddy's bones, I'd play it. I'd learn all the secrets he kept. Shady Grove inherited her father's ability to call ghosts from the grave with his fiddle, but she also knows the fiddle's tunes bring nothing but trouble and darkness. But when her brother is accused of murder, she can't let the dead keep their secrets. In order to clear his name, she's going to have to make those ghosts sing. Family secrets, a gorgeously resonant LGBTQ love triangle, and just the right amount of creepiness make this young adult debut a haunting and hopeful story about facing everything that haunts us in the dark.

Teen & Young Adult

Waters, Erica

Literature & Fiction

HarperTeen

Sawkill Girls meets The Hazel Wood in this lush and eerie debut, where the boundary between reality and nightmares is as thin as the veil between the living and the dead. 
If I could have a fiddle made of Daddy’s bones, I’d play it. I’d learn all the secrets he kept. 
Shady Grove inherited her father’s ability to call ghosts from the grave with his fiddle, but she also knows the fiddle’s tunes bring nothing but trouble and darkness. 
But when her brother is accused of murder, she can’t let the dead keep their secrets. 
In order to clear his name, she’s going to have to make those ghosts sing. 
Family secrets, a gorgeously resonant LGBTQ love triangle, and just the right amount of creepiness make this young adult debut a haunting and hopeful story about facing everything that haunts us in the dark.

The River Has Teeth

Product Description 
Lush and chilling, with razor-sharp edges and an iron core of hope, this bewitching, powerhouse novel of two girls fighting back against the violence the world visits on them will stun and enchant readers. 
Girls have been going missing in the woods… 
When Natasha’s sister disappears, Natasha desperately turns to Della, a local girl rumored to be a witch, in the hopes that magic will bring her sister home. 
But Della has her own secrets to hide. She thinks the beast who’s responsible for the disappearances is her own mother—who was turned into a terrible monster by magic gone wrong. 
Natasha is angry. Della has little to lose. Both are each other’s only hope. 
From the author of Ghost Wood Song, this eerie contemporary fantasy is perfect for fans of Wilder Girls and Bone Gap. 
Praise for Ghost Wood Song: 
“A gorgeous, creepy gem of a book.” —Claire Legrand, New York Times bestselling author of Furyborn and Sawkill Girls "It will make your heart dance." —Jeff Zentner, Morris Award-winning author of The Serpent King and Goodbye Days 
"Strikes the perfect balance of atmospheric chills, dark familial secrets, and a yearning for the warm comforts of home.” —Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows 
“Waters' debut features a bisexual lead with both male and female love interests, an atmospheric southern gothic setting, and, for the musically inclined, lots of folk and bluegrass references.” —Booklist 
“Haunting and alluring.” —Kirkus 
 From School Library Journal 
Gr 9 Up—In this fast-paced fantasy, Waters tells the story of women—mothers, daughters, aunts, and partners—who are driven by their love for one another. Della Lloyd is a teenage witch who lives on the Bend, the parkland alongside a river that has been the source of her family's magic for generations. When she meets Natasha Greymont, their attraction is unmistakable, but there's one problem: Natasha's sister is missing and Della's mother may be responsible. This book has a thriller's pacing but it is also beautifully atmospheric as it shows Della's cluttered house smelling of earth and herbs and the foggy river bottom running by the Lloyds' house. Through this tale of sirens and monsters, Waters reaches for a deeper meaning—a story about women who band together against those who would victimize them. While this message is compelling, this book centers the experiences of white characters while using a Black character, Georgia, to speak about the disproportionate violence against women of color. As a secondary character, Georgia's perspective feels like an afterthought in an otherwise well-developed story around Natasha and Della. VERDICT A moving, if imperfect, fantasy about the strength of women, recommended for those who enjoy thrillers with a social justice bent.—Talea Anderson, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA. 
 Review 
“This genre-blending contemporary thriller offers a searing indictment of men who prey on women while the book’s fantasy elements offer a form of revenge and resolution… Potent, atmospheric, and wholly satisfying.” -- 
Kirkus Reviews 
(starred review)\n“A backwoods murder ballad of a book that draws from the old songs and legends that underpin so many areas of rural America. [ 
The River Has Teeth] is well worth a listen.” -- NPR\n"Soft and seething, with an undercurrent of longing and rage, THE RIVER HAS TEETH is the perfect story for anyone who is tired of feeling helpless. This book has teeth, too." -- Hannah Whitten, 
New York Times bestselling author of 
For the Wolf\n"Waters weaves a spell on the page, seeped with dark and murky magic, both beautiful and terrifying, just as her girls are beautiful and terrifying. Set loose upon the Bend, Natasha and Della are two forces crashing into one another with a strength that makes their world tremble." 
 -- Emma Berquist, author of 
Missing, Presumed Dead\n"Packed with monstrous magic and a wicked bite, 
The River Has Teeth is the perf

Lush and chilling, with razor-sharp edges and an iron core of hope, this bewitching, powerhouse novel of two girls fighting back against the violence the world visits on them will stun and enchant readers. 
Girls have been going missing in the woods… 
When Natasha’s sister disappears, Natasha desperately turns to Della, a local girl rumored to be a witch, in the hopes that magic will bring her sister home. 
But Della has her own secrets to hide. She thinks the beast who’s responsible for the disappearances is her own mother—who was turned into a terrible monster by magic gone wrong. 
Natasha is angry. Della has little to lose. Both are each other’s only hope. 
From the author of Ghost Wood Song, this eerie contemporary fantasy is perfect for fans of Wilder Girls and Bone Gap. 
Praise for Ghost Wood Song: 
“A gorgeous, creepy gem of a book.” —Claire Legrand, New York Times bestselling author of Furyborn and Sawkill Girls\n"It will make your heart dance." —Jeff Zentner, Morris Award-winning author of The Serpent King and Goodbye Days 
"Strikes the perfect balance of atmospheric chills, dark familial secrets, and a yearning for the warm comforts of home.” —Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows 
“Waters' debut features a bisexual lead with both male and female love interests, an atmospheric southern gothic setting, and, for the musically inclined, lots of folk and bluegrass references.” —Booklist 
“Haunting and alluring.” —Kirkus

Enter Cloudkiss Canyon at your own risk. 
Sadie meets Wilder Girls in this unnerving tale about the struggle for survival, the twisted satisfaction of revenge, and the darkness hiding in all of us. From Erica Waters, the acclaimed author of Ghost Wood Song and The River Has Teeth,this mystery will haunt you to the end. 
The Cloudkiss Killer is dead. Now a true-crime podcast is hosting a contest to find his bones. 
Lucy was almost the serial killer’s final victim. Carolina is a true-crime fan who fears her own rage. Maggie is a psychology student with a little too much to hide. 
All of them are looking for answers, for a new identity, for a place to bury their secrets. 
But there are more than bones hiding in the shadows…sometimes the darkness inside is more frightening than anything the dead leave behind. 
Praise for Erica Waters’ The River Has Teeth and Ghost Wood Song: 
“Potent, atmospheric, and wholly satisfying.” —Kirkus (starred review) 
“A backwoods murder ballad of a book. [The River Has Teeth] is well worth a listen.” —NPR 
"The River Has Teeth is the perfect story for anyone who is tired of feeling helpless. This book has teeth, too." —Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the Wolf 
“A gorgeous, creepy gem of a book. Ghost Wood Song weaves a captivating spell you won’t want to break.” —Claire Legrand, New York Times bestselling author of Furyborn and Sawkill Girls 
"Ghost Wood Song will make your heart dance." —Jeff Zentner, Morris Award winning author of The Serpent King and Goodbye Days 
"The perfect balance of atmospheric chills, dark familial secrets, and a yearning for the warm comforts of home." —Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows

The Restless Dark

Ninth House meets The Dead and the Dark in this gothic dark academia novel that delves into the human capacity for great love, great art, and great evil.&nbsp; Magni animi numquam moriuntur. Great minds never die.&nbsp; The students in Corbin College's elite academic society, Magni Viri, have it all--free tuition, inspirational professors, and dream jobs once they graduate. When first-gen college student Tara is offered a chance to enroll, she doesn't hesitate.?&nbsp; Except once she's settled into the gorgeous Victorian dormitory, something strange starts to happen. She's finally writing, but her stories are dark and twisted. Her dreams feel as if they could bury her alive. An unseen presence seems to stalk her through the halls.&nbsp;&nbsp; And a chilling secret awaits Tara at the heart of Magni Viri--one that just might turn her nightmares into reality; one that might destroy her before she has a chance to escape.&nbsp; All That Consumes Us will pull readers into a hypnotizing, dark reverie that blurs the lines of reality and shows that the addictive nature of ambition--and its inevitable price--always claims its due.&nbsp;

All That Consumes Us

Ghost Wood Song Lib/E

Harpercollins

A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath of the third fire looming. A rural, isolated bridge with a terrifying monster waiting for the completion of its summoning ritual. A lake that allows the drowned to return, though they have been changed by the claws of death. These are the shadowed, liminal spaces where the curses and monsters lurk, refusing to be forgotten. Hauntings, and a variety of horrifying secrets, lurk in the places we once called home. Written by New York Times bestselling, and other critically acclaimed, authors these stories shed a harsh light on the scariest tales we grew up with.

Gathering Dark, The: An Anthology of Folk Horror

Gould, Courtney

Gong, Chloe

Saft, Allison

Brown, Alex

Whitten, Hannah

Bovalino, Tori

Polydoros, Aden

Chadha, Olivia

Toussaint, Shakira

Short Stories & Anthologies

Page Street YA

La hermana de Natasha ha desaparecido. La policía ha encontrado su coche abandonado en la carretera, junto a un lugar conocido como el Bend. Sin pistas ni pruebas, el caso se enfría poco a poco, mientras Natasha arde de rabia. La familia de Della lleva generaciones vendiendo conjuros para los desesperados, gracias a la magia del Bend. Sin embargo, cuando Natasha llama a su puerta, Della entiende que hará falta mucho más que una poción para ayudarla. Pero Della tiene muchos secretos que ocultar. Sabe quién está detrás de la desaparición: es su madre, o más bien el siniestro monstruo en el que se ha convertido... Natasha está enfadada y Della no tiene nada que perder. Son la única esperanza la una de la otra.

El río tiene dientes

Genre Fiction

Editorial Del Nuevo Extremo, S.L.

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Waters, Erica. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Waters, Erica

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Waters, Erica. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Ghost Wood Song

Ghost Wood Song

The River Has Teeth

The River Has Teeth

The Restless Dark

All That Consumes Us

Ghost Wood Song Lib/E

Gathering Dark, The: An Anthology of Folk Horror

El río tiene dientes

Gathering Dark, The: An Anthology of Folk Horror