Study in Drowning

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NO. 1 NYT BESTSELLING NOVEL, FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WOLF AND THE WOODSMAN `A love letter to stories - and to everyone silenced or forgotten in their retelling.` Allison Saft, author of A Far Wilder Magic Effy has always believed in fairy tales. She`s had no choice. Since childhood, she`s been haunted by visions of the Fairy King. She`s found solace only in the pages of Angharad - a beloved epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King, and then destroys him. Effy`s tattered copy is all that`s keeping her afloat through her stifling first term her prestigious architecture college. So when the late author`s family announces a contest to design his house, Effy fells certain this is her destiny. But Hiraeth Manor is an impossible task: a musty, decrepit estate on the brink of crumbling into a hungry sea. And when Effy arrives, she finds she isn`t the only one who`s made a temporary home there. Preston Héloury, a stodgy young literature scholar, is studying Myrddin`s papers and is determined to prove her favourite author is a fraud. As the two rival students investigate the reclusive author`s legacy, piecing together clues through his letters, books, and diaries, they discover that the house`s foundation isn`t the only thing that can`t be trusted. There are dark forces, both mortal and magical, conspiring against them - and the truth may bring them both to ruin.