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From the author of Pest—a Washington Post Noteworthy Book—comes a hilarious new novel that showcases the author’s talents at their best. Fifteen-year-old Caitlin Davies’s life is challenging enough. She’s short. She’s scrawny. She prefers Evernote to SnapChat. She’s two years younger than everyone else in her grade. And now her parents are taking the family to the British Virgin Islands (BVI)—for a year—to live on a derelict sailboat, bought sight-unseen from navigationally-impaired cigar smugglers.

The Inherited Night follows Keiran Warrick, a college student haunted by unrelenting exhaustion. No matter how long he sleeps, he wakes up drained—as if some part of him never rests. Desperate for answers, he joins a university sleep study run by the enigmatic Dr. Calder, where he meets Sasha, a sharp and compassionate observer with insights of her own. As Keiran’s dreams grow more vivid—and disturbing—he begins to suspect his nighttime suffering may be tied to a hidden family legacy.

For years, the windswept grandeur of the Scottish Highlands was Fraser's only true companion. But his latest expedition into the mysterious heart of the Cairngorm region, shattered that familiarity. Beneath the crags and lochs, a breathtaking pristine hidden realm stirred, pulling him into an adventure far beyond his wildest dreams. A secret of epic proportion, hidden for millennia soon unravells as the realm beneath is thrown into turmoil, revealing an ancient dark practice, hidden from mankind.