Alice has fought hard for a normal life. Having escaped the Hinterland - the strange, pitch-dark world she was born into - she has washed up in New York City, determined to build a new future for herself.

Alice has fought hard for a normal life. Having escaped the Hinterland - the strange, pitch-dark world she was born into - she has washed up in New York City, determined to build a new future for herself.

But when her fellow survivors start being brutally murdered, Alice must face the fact that the Hinterland cannot be so easily escaped. And that, from the shadows of her past something - or someone - is coming for her...

Praise for Melissa Albert:

'Magical, mesmerising and inventive' Karen McManus, bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying

'This book will be your next obsession' Stephanie Garber, bestselling author of Caravel

'Insidiously beautiful' Guardian

'You'll not sleep a wink' Heat

'A magnificent creation, laden with wonder and fear impossible to turn away from . . . Literal goose bumps' Booklist

'Darker, bloodier and even stranger than THE HAZEL WOOD, THE NIGHT COUNTRY invites the wolf from the forest inside your home. A sinister jewel of a novel, like splitting a pomegranate and finding the inside filled with blood and rubies, every sentence of this book thrilled and chilled me to the bone.' Melinda Salisbury, bestselling author of The Sin Eater's Daughter