A charismatic, bestselling author on the rise, moving to Tor, who is going to take her to the next level! A contemporary Kentucky Gothic about a small town and the haunted house at the center of it.

Opal thinks that nothing good could ever happen, not in the bad luck magnet town of Eden Kentucky, and not to someone like her. She's the struggling, barely adult orphan daughter of a con-artist, perpetually poor, and a fierce, mostly legal guardian to her younger brother Jasper. She finds freedom only in her dreams, where she walks the ground of Starling House, the engimatic, decaying mansion up the hill, once home to a notorious cult-classic horror novelist. When Opal teams up with the reluctant caretaker of the house, they will uncover secrets, terrors, a world below Starling House; in the process, they hope to save a town, and maybe even give Opal a home.

• With the instant success of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow became one of the most exciting debuts of 2019. Her first novel has sold almost 180K copies, and The Once And Future Witches has sold 130K and was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. She has won a Hugo award for her short fiction and is a New York Times Bestseller. This should be a major awards contender!

• We swooped in and stole this novel from our competitors in a deeply competitive acquisition. Alix Harrow is a total star, and this standalone title is sure to cement her as one of Tor's greatest assets in the years to come.