NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Get swept away by this “haunting” (Bustle) novel about twelve beautiful sisters living on an isolated island estate who begin to mysteriously die one by one.
"Step inside a fairy tale." —Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Caraval In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.
Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last--the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge--and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.
Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that her sister's deaths were no accidents. The girls have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Because who--or what--are they really dancing with?
When Annaleigh's involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it's a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family--before it claims her next. House of Salt and Sorrows is a spellbinding novel filled with magic and the rustle of gossamer skirts down long, dark hallways. Be careful who you dance with...
And don't miss Erin A. Craig's newest novel, The Thirteenth Child, a haunting and romantic novel about the impossible choices we make in the name of love.
On sale: August 4, 2020
Age: 12 and up
Grade: Grade 7 & Up
Page count: 416 Pages
ISBN: 9781984831958
Reading level: Lexile: HL700L
Erin A. Craig is the #1
New York Times bestelling author of
House of Salt and Sorrows, Small Favors,
House of Roots and Ruin, and
The Thirteenth Child. She has always loved telling stories. An avid reader, a decent quilter, a rabid basketball fan, and a collector of typewriters, Erin makes her home in West Michigan with her husband and daughter.
"It’s a fairy tale, a young-adult romance (though gothic enough for adult readers) and a whodunit too."
—The Wall Street Journal
“A tingling and chilling read.”
—Huffington Post "An eerie, lovely Twelve Dancing Princesses retelling full of ghosts and gods and a fascinating waterfront world and I'm reading it from behind my fingers."—Melissa Albert,
New York Times bestselling author of
The Hazel Wood "Chilling and atmospheric."—Laura E. Weymouth, author of
The Light Between Worlds
“Evocative details and lyrical, moody prose . . . a richly conceived story that blends mythic and Gothic storytelling."
—PW "The novel’s vivid, evocative atmosphere will please fans of the gothic . . . chills aplenty."
—The Bulletin "Equal parts gothic fairy tale and romance . . . compulsively readable."—
SLJ "This moody maritime retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses blends elements of suspense and horror for a gothic twist on a familiar tale. A memorably built world populated with a hauntingly doomed family."—
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