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Reliquary
- Author
- Hannah Whitten
- Narrator
- Lauren Fortgang
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Publish Date
- 11 August 2026
- Run Time
- 8 hours 34 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
When Claire’s fiancé mysteriously dies of an unknown neurological illness, she’s prepared to sink back into the lonely life she lived before. Orphaned by a freak boating accident in her childhood, she never expected to find connection like she did with Elias, anyway. Their relationship wasn’t perfect—his coldness, his secrets, his strange aversion to the ocean—but what relationship is?
When Elias’s family reaches out—his incredibly wealthy family, from whom he was estranged—and invites Claire to a three-day wake at Harrow Point, their family home on a private island, Claire is given the chance to find family again. To belong to something, just like she’s always wanted. Just like Elias knew she was desperate to have.
Even if that family is a little strange. Even if their coastal home stirs up memories of the accident that killed her parents and sister. Even if Ash, Elias’s older brother, seems insistent on Claire leaving as soon as possible.
As she dives deeper into the world of Harrow Point, she will uncover the nature of her own traumatic connection to the ocean. There is something swimming in the bowels of Harrow Point, and it is hungry…
Critics Review
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"Hannah Whitten was born to write horror! Visceral and grotesque and utterly fascinating, Reliquary explores grief’s haunting hollowness…and the horrifying things that try to fill it. Utterly brilliant."—Rachel Gillig, New York Times bestselling author of One Dark Window
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"Atmospheric and absolutely devastating, Hannah Whitten knocks it out of the park with this one! I couldn't put it down!"—Katee Robert, New York Times bestselling author
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“Propulsive and completely impossible to put down, Reliquary seized me with uneasy dread and will make me think twice before tiptoeing into any ocean. Hannah Whitten is my new favorite voice in horror.”—Erin A. Craig, #1 NYT bestselling author of The Thirteenth Child
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"Evocative, haunting, and deeply unsettling. Hannah’s salt-soaked horror debut cements her as one of the most brilliant and incisive voices in speculative fiction."—Alexis Henderson, author of An Academy for Liars
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"Creepy, atmospheric, and perfectly weird— it was a horrifying delight to submerge myself in the sea-drenched, eldritch world of Reliquary."
—Lyndall Clipstone, author of Tenderly, I am Devoured -
"Reliquary is a wild ride from start to finish. If you're a fan of the type of horror that is viscerally creepy but also makes you whisper "hell yeah" under your breath, look no further! I loved every salt-drenched second."—Tori Bovalino, author of My Throat an Open Grave
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“Fresh, original, and absurdly propulsive, Reliquary is a feat of taut plotting, eerie world-building, and incisive commentary on the dark underbelly of power and privilege. The spectral slice of flawed and complex romance had me gnawing at the bars of my enclosure. Whitten is surely one of the most exciting new voices in horror.”—Laura “L.K.” Steven, #1 NYT bestselling author of Our Infinite Fates and Silvercloak
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"Brimming with terror that’ll slither over your bones, Hannah Whitten’s Reliquary is a wicked communion of opulence, twisted kinship, and briny dread. Reliquary marks Whitten’s trailblazing entry into the horror scene—a haunting, unrepentant tale about grief, desire, and the sacrifices we’ll make to slake the hunger consuming us all."—A. J. Vrana, author of The Hollow Gods
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Details
- Author
- Hannah Whitten
- Narrator
- Lauren Fortgang
- Duration
- 8 hours 34 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 August 2026
- ISBN
- 9781668655740
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Genre
- Narrative theme: Interior life, Occult fiction
Synopsis
A young woman is lured to her late fiancé's remote island estate—only to uncover eerie family secrets, a haunting past, and a monstrous hunger stirring beneath the sea in this deliciously atmospheric horror debut from New York Times bestselling author Hannah Whitten. When Claire’s fiancé mysteriously dies of an unknown neurological illness, she’s prepared to sink back into the lonely life she lived before. Orphaned by a freak boating accident in her childhood, she never expected to find connection like she did with Elias, anyway. Their relationship wasn’t perfect—his coldness, his secrets, his strange aversion to the ocean—but what relationship is? When Elias’s family reaches out—his incredibly wealthy family, from whom he was estranged—and invites Claire to a three-day wake at Harrow Point, their family home on a private island, Claire is given the chance to find family again. To belong to something, just like she’s always wanted. Just like Elias knew she was desperate to have. Even if that family is a little strange. Even if their coastal home stirs up memories of the accident that killed her parents and sister. Even if Ash, Elias’s older brother, seems insistent on Claire leaving as soon as possible. As she dives deeper into the world of Harrow Point, she will uncover the nature of her own traumatic connection to the ocean. There is something swimming in the bowels of Harrow Point, and it is hungry…
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