Previously published as Cynosura 99 by Sam Weiss.

"The night the moon bleeds is the night the world will end. There's death in the moon. And the moon is you."

Atra Hart has spent the last seven years locked away in Vanishing Plains Psychiatric Hospital. In that time, her shadow has transformed into its own entity and is growing stronger by the day, threatening to devour her mind. She calls that shadow Dread, and only her missing father knows what it is.

When a fire breaks out at the asylum, Atra makes her way to freedom just in time to see an electric-purple rift sunder the sky. Like Dread, the rift is only visible to her.

Atra’s already loose grip on reality unravels when she learns the rift is a gateway to the world of the dead. And the Queen, an ancient evil lurking on its fringes, wants Dread for her own.

Even worse, Atra can’t tell if any of this is really happening. She might have escaped one asylum, but the closer she gets to unearthing answers about Dread, why her father knows it’s there, and its role in the Queen’s plans, the more she risks getting trapped inside her own mind forever.

Maybe some truths are meant to stay buried.

"Take the topsy turvy world of Alice in Wonderland, sprinkle in...horrific dread...and Grimms' version of Snow White, and smash it all into a sci-fi fantasy horror. That's what this book is like. We are taken through a twisted journey so out of this world that you'll be questioning what's real and what isn't."

"Like a secret garden where science fiction and horror intertwine amongst the wildflowers. Highly recommended!"

"This is a sci-fi fantasy horror genre mash up with so many vibes from Fringe and Stranger Things...It all comes together in the end brilliantly. So many rabbit holes to go down in this book, so many interesting characters, and you never know what timeline or plane you’re in, who’s real and who’s not."

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