
Wild Dark Shore
A March 2025 LibraryReads Pick
A New York Times Bestseller
A USA Today Bestseller
A Washington Post Bestseller
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
A ScreenRant Pick of Best Thrillers of the Year
A Reese’s Book Club Pick
An Amazon Best Books of the Year Pick
Finalist for the Audie Award for Best Audiobook Narration of the Year
A Time Magazine Best Books of the Year Pick
A Globe and Mail (Toronto) Best Books Pick
A Scientific American Magazine Pick of 2025's Best Books
A Good Housekeeping Best Book of 2025
The Economist Best Books of the Year Pick
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best
This program features multicast narration. An enthralling new novel from the New York Times author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves
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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.
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