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by Hailey Piper
A visceral and heartbreaking work of gothic horror about small town mysteries, local folklore and the things we leave behind when we're gone, from the Bram Stoker Award winning author of Queen of Teeth.
What really happened to Cabrina Brite?
Ivory's life changes irrevocably when she discovers the body of Cabrina Brite on the sands of Cape Morning, along with a mysterious poem. How did she die, and why does it seem she was trying to swim to Ghost Cat Island, the center of so many local mysteries?
Desperate to uncover the answers surrounding Cabrina's death, and haunted by her discovery, Ivory begins to see the pale ghost of Cabrina, only to shake it off as a mere hallucination. But Ivory is not alone. Cabrina's closest friends have also seen a similar apparition, and as they toy with occult possibilities, they begin to unravel the truth behind Cabrina's death.
Because Cape Morning isn't a ghost town, but a town filled with ghosts, and Ivory is about to discover just what happens when you let one in.
"Weaving classic horror elements into a powerful tale of trans solidarity and the life-sucking toll of being forced back into the closet, Piper cements her place in the queer horror canon." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A must-read for those who enjoyed Piper's Bram Stoker award-winning Queen of Teeth. Like Nat Cassidy's Nestlings, it takes the vampire story and turns it into something new." —Library Journal
"Intense and visceral...A great choice for fans of original takes on the vampire trope like Devils Kill Devils by Johnny Compton, the queer, teen found family of Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin, or the grief and cosmic horror of This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno." —Booklist
"You think you know how this haunting will go, but you don't. All the Hearts You Eat has a dark and powerful undertow, and it'll pull you far, far out to sea." —Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers and Black River Orchard
"All the Hearts You Eat is a secret spell, a starless sky, the chambers of a heart and the depths of sorrow. Hailey Piper grips us in this gorgeous yet tragic death poem and life poem, in which we're struck with the utter heartbreak of how when we are starved of friendship, love, and care we are turned into a monster. As beautiful as the sea and as unsettling as its destructive waves." —Cynthia Pelayo, Bram Stoker Award®-winning author of Crime Scene
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Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published.
Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, The Worm and His Kings, Your Mind Is a Terrible Thing, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, Benny Rose, the Cannibal King, and The Possession of Natalie Glasgow. She is a member of the Horror Writers Association, with dozens of short stories appearing in various publications. She lives with her wife in Maryland, where their paranormal research is classified.
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