Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Length: 303 Pages (Hardcover)
Audiobook: 9 Hours, 35 Minutes
Publication Date: March 4, 2025
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Publisher’s Description
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore.
Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting herself, starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again.
But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, they all must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late—and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together.
A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears.
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy is published by Flatiron Books (Macmillan Publishers).
Content Advisory
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy contains mentions of suicide and sexual assault.
About Charlotte McConaghy
Charlotte McConaghy is the author of the international bestseller MIGRATIONS, a TIME Magazine Best Book of the Year and the Amazon.com Best Fiction Book of the Year for 2020, which is being translated into over twenty languages and adapted for film, and the New York Times Bestseller ONCE THERE WERE WOLVES. She has both a Graduate Degree in Screenwriting and a Masters Degree in Screen Arts, and lives in Sydney, Australia.
She started her writing career writing SF/F for young adults; Migrations was her first foray into the adult literary world. Her new novel, WILD DARK SHORE, is her third adult novel, a romantic mystery, coming March 2025 (Goodreads, 2025).
Read more about Charlotte McConaghy here.
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