Extasia

In Haven, a strict and devout village where women are sorted into saints or sinners, a teenage girl named Amity is about to be made one of four saints. The elders will mark her and place the red hood on her head, and she will stand with her sisters against the dark power that lives beneath the black mountain. That power has already killed nine of the village's men, and Amity hopes the role will also lift her family's shame over her mother.

Amity has secrets she cannot share. Pale, white-eyed beasts follow her, faceless gray women rise tall as houses, and she has seen two girls kissing in the elm grove. In a community where such love is condemned as sin, that knowledge could ruin her or, possibly, save her. Meanwhile, the bodies of the dead are turning up horribly mutilated.

To protect her people, Amity must join a secret sisterhood, but the power it offers comes from a source far darker than she expected. The novel explores faith, obedience, and the control of women within a rigid community, alongside a love story that the village would punish.

Claire Legrand, a New York Times bestselling writer whose earlier novel is Sawkill Girls, brings this young adult horror story to HarperCollins readers. It suits teens who enjoy supernatural suspense with witchcraft, a religious setting, and an LGBTQ+ storyline.