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'When Arden Beacon is sent to the lighthouse, she is simply a woman with a job to do. She neither seeks, nor expects, distraction. After years tainted by disappointment, Arden is finally taking up her family’s profession. She must prove herself worthy of her name, for she has nothing else.
'But the coast she has been tasked with lighting is far from the world she knows – the salt-swept, backwater town of Vigil is battered by a sea teeming with colossal, ancient beasts. It is a place of secrets, rumours and tight-lipped expectations of a woman’s place.
'More than anyone, the folk of Vigil whisper about Arden’s new neighbour, Jonah Riven, hunter of leviathans. He murdered his wife, they whisper – a perfect, golden girl, full of charm and potential. So very different to Arden Beacon.
'They say he is as much a monster as his prey, but Arden cannot get this dark stranger out of her head.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Works about this Work
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Australian Horror
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , July vol. 102 no. 2020; (p. 111-114)
— Review of Monstrous Heart 2020 single work novel ; Into Bones Like Oil 2019 single work novella ; The Cobra Queen 2020 single work novel -
[Review] Monstrous Heart
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 136 2020;
— Review of Monstrous Heart 2020 single work novel
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[Review] Monstrous Heart
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 136 2020;
— Review of Monstrous Heart 2020 single work novel -
Australian Horror
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , July vol. 102 no. 2020; (p. 111-114)
— Review of Monstrous Heart 2020 single work novel ; Into Bones Like Oil 2019 single work novella ; The Cobra Queen 2020 single work novel
Awards
- 2021 shortlisted Ditmar Awards — Best Novel
- 2020 finalist Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Fantasy Division — Novel
- 2020 finalist Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Horror Division — Novel