HORROR

Direct Descendant

DAW. Apr. 2025. 336p. ISBN 9780756419660. $29. HORROR
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Lake Argen, an isolated but surprisingly prosperous little town in northern Ontario, does its damndest to keep outsiders away, but they failed with spoiled rich boy Travis Brayden, and now the police are coming to investigate his disappearance. Cassidy Prewitt has even bigger worries as the summer solstice sacrifice has woken something under Lake Argen, and the cops are just the harbinger of worse to come—along with the love of her life, who Cassidy didn’t even know she was missing. There’s something hungry and waiting under Lake Argen, and there’s someone eager to take that power for themselves, but a whole town of supernatural humans and eldritch horrors stands in their way. This combo of horror, cozy dark fantasy, and sapphic romance from Huff (Into the Broken Lands) will appeal to fans of Darcy Coates’s eldritch villages, T. Kingfisher’s otherworldly scenarios, and Grady Hendrix’s homespun and even humorous horror, as well as to readers who loved Hazel Beck’s “Witchlore” series and Alix E. Harrow’s Starling House.
VERDICT The secrets under Lake Argen are chilling, the hellhounds and eldritch horrors are adorable, and the romance goes from fated to bitter to sweet in an epic climax. Highly recommended.
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