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Craig, Erin A.

 
9780593686805: A Land So Wide: A Novel
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0593686802 ISBN 13: 9780593686805
Verlag: Pantheon, 2025

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The town of Mistaken has a secret. . . .

Mistaken is a tiny settlement in the beautiful but brutal Canadian wilderness blessed with rich natural resources—and cursed with unspeakable dangers. Just outside the town’s Warding Stones lurk the Bright-Eyeds, insatiable monsters who have rained utter destruction down on nearby villages. Mistaken’s founders made a deal to protect those who live there, but at a steep cost: anyone who spends a night within its borders belongs to it forever.

Until the day when the man Greer Mackenzie loves disappears beyond the Warding Stones, pursued by a terrifying creature. Determined to rescue him, Greer must find a way to defy Mistaken’s curse and brave the cold and pitiless wilderness. But she herself is being hunted, not only by the ruthless Bright-Eyeds but by the hidden truths behind Mistaken’s founding and her own origins.

This deeply atmospheric adult debut from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows is a stunning celebration of one woman’s unrelenting bravery on a quest to reclaim her lost love—and seize her own future.

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#1 New York Times best-selling author Erin A. Craig has always loved telling stories. After getting her B.F.A. from the University of Michigan, in Theatre Design and Production, she stage managed tragic operas with hunchbacks, séances, and murderous clowns, then decided she wanted to write books that were just as spooky. An avid reader, decent quilter, rabid basketball fan, and collector of typewriters, brass figurines, and sparkly shoes, Erin makes her home in West Michigan with her husband and daughter.

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1

Scritch, scritch, scratch.

Even with her face buried in a sketchbook and her back turned away from the bloody business, Greer Mackenzie could still hear every bit of Louise Beaufort slicing into the hare’s pelt, splitting a bright seam down its stomach.

The flick of the knife.

The wet squelch as fur peeled away from red meat and glistening sinews.

Those cords of muscle stretching taunt, then snapping asunder.

“Last one,” Louise announced as an eagle screeched overhead, circling them in lazy, hopeful patterns. It beat its wings against currents of air, once, twice, before drifting off for a more promising meal.

The tip of Greer’s pencil dug divots into the soft paper as she doubled her concentration upon the map, forcing the noises away as she made sure her lines were tidy and accurate.

“Take your time,” she said, glancing back, regrettably, to see Louise twist the rabbit’s heart free, her fingers stained with rust-colored offal. “It’s probably our last trip out before Reaping.”

“A good one, too,” Louise commented, sounding distracted. “So many hares, and I’m sure your father will be pleased as well. Never seen this many Redcaps.”

Greer’s gaze fell on the copse of scarlet trees, standing out starkly against the forest’s green pines and yellow tamaracks.

Named after the murderous goblins found in whispered childhood tales, Redcaps were wide and squat. Their limbs spread farther out than up, as if they were monstrous spiders moving in for their prey. The red bark was thick and riddled with bulbous whorls. When it broke off, shedding jagged bits and pieces across the forest floor, a pungent scarlet sap flowed forth, raining down like blood. Gray moss clung to the creaking branches, like tufts of straggled hair.

They were not attractive trees, not by half, but the wood was surprisingly strong and flexible. Perfect for lumber, for boats and buildings.

It was what first drew Resolution Beaufort and his workers to this land: the whispers of bounty, the lure of untold, easy wealth.

Her butchering done, Louise sat back on her feet and stretched, tipping her face to the sky. Rich amber sunlight sparkled down, turning the forest around them to flame. “That’s all I want to carry back today.”

“I’ll put up the flags, then,” Greer said, pulling out the strips of cotton from her pack. They’d been taken from other trees nearly a mile back. It gave Greer a thrill to move the flags on each of their excursions, claiming more of the surrounding unknown, yard by yard, bite by bite. She loved knowing that, even though she might be stuck behind Mistaken’s border each night, there were small pieces of her remaining out in the wild, tiny scraps of defiance that would not budge, that were not subject to the Warding Stones’ pull.

The markers were made of blue-and-white ticking, their stripes bold and unmissable—perfect for warning any travelers from Mistaken that they were about to venture too deep into the forest, that they wouldn’t be able to return before sunset. Anyone who went blithely by those bright strips of fabric needed to know they weren’t coming back.

Alive, at least.

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Verlag
Pantheon
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0593686802
ISBN 13 
9780593686805
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Anzahl der Seiten
368
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