The release date for the English version of 'The Luminaries' by
Susan Dennard is Nov 2022. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
This menacing and intense contemporary fantasy novel by New York Times bestselling author of the Witchlands series Susan Dennard explores the courage needed to confront personal secrets that lurk in the shadows of your own family and the magic needed to face fears in a forest full of nightmares.
A New York Times Bestseller Right Away
Picked for the Barnes & Noble YA Book Club
A 2022 Indigo Best Teen Novel
A Junior Library Select Selection
An Unknown Next Choice
Hemlock Falls is not your typical town. There's no map for it, no cell service here, and the jungle beyond town may kill you.
Winnie Wednesday's greatest desire is to become a member of the Luminaries, an illustrious organization that has stood the test of time in defending mankind and her town from the nightly monsters and horrors that emerge from Hemlock Falls' forest.
Winnie and her family have been outcast ever since her father was revealed to be a witch and a traitor. However, she may face the lethal Luminary hunting trials on her sixteenth birthday to demonstrate her loyalty and truthfulness and to clear her family's reputation. or perish trying.
However, Winnie needs the one guy who can help her train—resident bad boy and former best buddy Jay Friday—in order to live. Though Jay seems to know more than he should about the horrors of the forest, he may be the most promising new hunter in Hemlock Falls. He and Winnie will find that there is a threat in the forest that no one in Hemlock Falls is ready for.
Not all nightmares are limited to the dark, and not all monsters can be defeated.