THE ORCHARD AT THE END OF OCTOBER

On the twelfth anniversary of his sister's death, Elian Moore receives a phone call from a number that has been disconnected for eleven years.

The voice on the other end is Grace's-but Grace drowned as a child. She warns him not to come to the garden. She begs him to remember the last call. And then the line goes dead.

Below the Russian city of Ufa, Elian descends into Vesperfall-an impossible orchard where memory is currency, names are doors, and the dead are loved incorrectly. Guided by the enigmatic Irena Vale and haunted by a childhood name he gave away, Elian must restore seven stolen names before Halloween midnight. If he fails, the orchard will open into the living world-and the Keeper will claim the one name Elian has spent twelve years trying to forget.

The Orchard at the End of October is a dark fantasy of grief and memory for readers who believe that the most frightening monsters are often the stories we tell ourselves to survive. Atmospheric, haunting, and unexpectedly tender, it asks what we owe to the dead-and what we owe to ourselves when we refuse to let them go.