Agent: Catherine Drayton, Inkwell Management.

Readers who are both delighted by stories of the uncanny and are undeterred by detailed explorations of decay will find themselves enchanted. Heavy topics, including parental alienation, suicide, feelings of isolation, substance use, and bullying, attend Sutherland’s carefully crafted fantasy world. Now, with Grey missing and a mysterious bull-skulled man stalking their steps, Iris and Vivi must follow the scant clues Grey leaves behind in order to find her. The girls who returned were different, with no memory of what happened, and each gifted with a strange power of influence. Iris Hollow, 17, is the youngest of three sisters, who “each black eyes and hair as white as milk.” Ten years prior, Grey, the eldest, now a fashion icon and supermodel musician Vivi and quiet Iris disappeared without a trace for a month while with their parents in Scotland, only to return in exactly the same place.

: G.P.Filled with evocative detail, Sutherland’s ( A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares) dark fantasy teems with eerie atmosphere and questions that have potentially undesirable answers.

As they brush against the supernatural, Iris quickly realizes that the story she's been told about their past is unraveling and the world that returned them seemingly unharmed ten years ago might just be calling them back again. But when Grey goes missing, leaving behind bizarre clues as to her whereabouts, Iris and Vivi are left to find her-but they aren't the only ones looking. Now seventeen-year-old Iris is doing all she can to fit in and graduate high school on time-something her two famous, glamorous, globe-trotting older sisters, Grey and Vivi, never managed to do. People find them disturbingly intoxicating, unbearably beautiful, and inexplicably dangerous.

Krystal grew up in Townsville and currently resides in London. She loves Worcestershire sauce, unsolved mysteries (obviously) and appeared on the annual Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ list in 2018. And as they grew older, odd, eerie occurrences seemed to follow in their wake. Krystal Sutherland is the internationally published author of Chemical Hearts, A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares and House of Hollow. More troubling, their appearance began to change: their blue eyes now black, their dark hair now white. As children, they disappeared on a Scottish city street only to return a month later with no memory of what had happened to them or where they'd been. Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. by Krystal Sutherland A lot of things change between a messy first draft and a polished, finished book and House of Hollow is no exception.

Darkly seductive, this twisty modern-day fairy tale by critically acclaimed author Krystal Sutherland is a gripping, terrifying journey where three sisters discover they are not all that they seem.

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland