Grave Matter
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Aspiring mycologist Sydney Denik is getting a second chance. When a dream opportunity presents itself with a prestigious foundation doing promising Alzheimer's research, Sydney leaves the shambles of her old life to join a dozen other grad students at an isolated lodge hidden away in a remote, fog-shrouded inlet on Vancouver Island.
But the Madrona Foundation harbors more than brilliant minds. Everyone around her is hiding a terrible secret-including the resident psychologist she's falling in love with. A student disappears, and no one but Sydney seems to care. Ghosts walk the halls. Snow falls in the middle of summer. Dead animals move like the living. The more Sydney uncovers about the foundation, the more she begins to question her own sanity. And if Sydney isn't going mad, then the horrors in the surrounding forest are real, and the Madrona Foundation may be the biggest monster of all.
Darkly sensual, atmospheric, and inventive-New York Times bestseller Karina Halle blends horror and science fiction in a wildly unique psychological thriller.
Karina Halle
Karina Halle is a former travel writer, music journalist, and screenwriter, and the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of over sixty bestselling novels, ranging from horror and suspense to contemporary romance. She lives in Los Angeles and on an island off the coast of British Columbia with her husband, and her adopted pitbull Bruce, where she drinks a lot of wine, hikes a lot of trails, and devours a lot of books. Her work has been translated and published in twenty languages.
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