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    King Nyx: A Novel
    King Nyx: A Novel
    King Nyx: A Novel
    Audiobook10 hours

    King Nyx: A Novel

    Written by Kirsten Bakis

    Narrated by Bahni Turpin

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A haunting mystery about lost girls and the woman driven to find them. From the author of the contemporary classic Lives of the Monster Dogs.

    Anna Fort wants to be a supportive wife, even if that means accompanying her husband for the winter of 1918 to a remote, frozen island estate so he can finish his book as the guest of an eccentric millionaire. When she learns three girls are missing from a school run by their host, Anna realizes finding them is up to her—even if that means risking her husband’s career, and possibly her life.

    Her husband’s masterpiece-in-progress features strange meteorological anomalies along with wild speculations about “facts” he believes scientists hide from the public. Most people think Charles Fort is a crackpot. That’s about to change now that wealthy Claude Arkel is his patron.

    Yet Anna is sure something’s not right on Prosper Island, though the alarming return of her “troubles” makes her question her own sanity. Is the figure in the woods really the ghost of her long-lost friend Mary, or a product of her disturbed imagination? Accompanied reluctantly by a fellow guest, the elegant and troubled Stella Bixby, Anna embarks on a dangerous quest to find the missing girls before Arkel finds her—or her own mind unravels.

    A contemporary feminist tale with a dreamlike, gothic setting, King Nyx reintroduces readers, twenty-five years after her acclaimed debut, to one of our most astonishingly imaginative storytellers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 27, 2024
    ISBN9798892730532
    King Nyx: A Novel
    Author

    Kirsten Bakis

    Kirsten Bakis attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is the recipient of a Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel, and a Whiting Award. She is a resident faculty member at the Yale Writers’ Conference, teaches at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, and is an editor at Origins Journal. Bakis is the author of Lives of the Monster Dogs.

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