Vern has escaped from Cainland. She’s pregnant. Through the woods, she flees from her husband, the Reverend Sherman, and from the cult-like settlement she grew up in…

Thin places are parts of the world where the barrier between clay and the mist is more fragile, where it can be broken . . .

Mary is not a good writer. She’s not sure she wants to be. But what else is there for the descendent of Mary Shelley?

It begins with a meal. And a murder. Not necessarily in that order. Chelsea G. Summers’s debut novel revitalizes the sophisticated cannibal through a feminist slant…