My Dearest Darkest

Finch Chamberlin arrives at Ulalume Academy, an ultra-competitive school on an island, as its newest transfer student. Months earlier, a car accident involving her and her parents ended with her in a river, and she should have drowned. Something ancient and monstrous refused to let that happen.

She does not know why she woke after her heart stopped, only that the school and the town of Rainwater have pulled at her ever since.

Selena St. Clair notices that something is badly wrong with Finch. She distrusts her, yet she is drawn to her all the same, and she senses the two of them are now tied together in ways neither can explain.

One night Finch, Selena and Selena's friends accidentally summon a carnivorous creature of immense power deep inside the school. It offers to grant the desires each girl keeps hidden: beauty, power, adoration. The price is human body parts.

As the cost of wanting grows deadlier, Finch and Selena have to cooperate to stop what they have released before it devours the whole island. This is a sapphic young adult horror novel with a dark academia setting, with a creeping, ominous mood that turns bloody.