If you knew the world was ending, who would you save? And would they let you?
Sixteen-year-old Winnie Bray is a liar. As the resident psychic at an oddities shop, Winnie truly can see the future. But her customers only want reassurance, and Winnie only wants their money. Favorable fortunes are a fast track to funding her way out of Buffalo, New York for good, after all.
All of that changes when a vision sends her searching through the remains of her family home that burned down 10 years ago. Among the ash and rubble, Winnie finds a box made of bone, untouched by flames and… whispering. When she touches it, the box shows her a vision of death, chaos, and apocalypse, with her and rich kids Apollo and Cyrus Rathbun at the center.
Apollo knows their cousin is up to no good; with the Rathbun influence dwindling, Cyrus is aiming to present himself as the new patriarch. Despite an initial attraction, Apollo is reluctant to believe a con artist like Winnie. But soon it becomes clear that their family histories are intertwined around this whispering, hungry box, and more than their lives are on the line. Together, they must discover the origins of the box and stop unforeseen forces from opening it, thereby fulfilling the apocalyptic prophecy, or die trying.
From the author of I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me comes a dreamy speculative thriller about the ties that bind us to places and people, perfect for fans of Andrew Joseph White and Tochi Onyebuchi.
