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Kelly Andrew
Kelly Andrew writes dark, atmospheric stories, often exploring the chilling and the macabre. Her notable works include the novels The Gravewood, Your Blood, My Bones, and I Am Made of Death.
The Whispering Dark
Synopsis
Delaney Meyers-Petrov has spent her life being underestimated. Deaf since childhood and fiercely protected by her parents, she enrolls at a prestigious New England university determined to prove she belongs there on her own terms. What she finds is a faculty that wants her gone, a hostile classmate, and a secretive program hidden beneath the school that trains a handful of students to open doorways between worlds.
Colton Price is one of that handful. Cold, watchful, and inexplicably bound to Delaney by something neither of them can name, he is the only person on campus who seems to know what she is capable of. As students begin to disappear and the boundary between the living world and whatever lies beyond it thins, the two are forced into a partnership that neither wants and neither can walk away from.
Kelly Andrew's debut is a dark academia fantasy about grief, obsession, and the cost of being seen. It pairs a gothic campus atmosphere with a slow, uneasy romance, and it does not soften the ways ableism and control shape a young woman's life.
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Characters
Delaney Meyers-PetrovProtagonist
A deaf first-year student who refuses to be defined by other people's caution.
Colton PriceProtagonist
A guarded student bound to Delaney by a shared childhood neither fully remembers.
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