Wild Dark Shore: The Stilt-House on the Vanishing Island, (Paperback)

<p><strong><em>"A breathtaking debut of SUSPENSE, GRIEF, AND CHOSEN FAMILY that will undo you and rebuild you on the same page...I could not stop reading."</em> - Mireille Hawthorne</strong></p><p><strong><em>"A FIERCELY GIFTED new voice."</em> - Tomas Aldering</strong></p><p><strong><em>"Absolutely DEVASTATING. Berlanga writes the small dark hours like no one else."</em> - Saskia Vrey</strong></p><p><strong><em>"SPELLBINDING...Exceptionally tender, ferociously alive."</em> - Linnea Korhonen</strong></p><p><strong><em>"My absolute FAVORITE book of the year."</em> - Wren Falkenberg</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>A grieving surgeon. Two children in hiding. A vanishing island where the tide takes everything back.</strong></p><p></p><p>Dr. Hanne Voss is a trauma surgeon who has forgotten how to make decisions. Fourteen months after losing her husband, she takes a winter caretaker post on Halligen Møllesand, a tiny marsh island in the German Wadden Sea that disappears under the sea twice a day. Her only home will be the <em>Pfahlhaus Sturmvogel</em>, a 1950s research station built on six wooden stilts above the salt marsh. She expects six months of silence. She finds the silence already broken.</p><p></p><p>Seventeen-year-old Jonas and his fourteen-year-old sister Emi have been hiding in the stilt-house for twelve days. Jonas has been protecting Emi for two and a half years. Emi has not spoken aloud in fourteen months. The man they are running from is a respected Hamburg pediatric dentist, a church deacon - a man whose forty-year public face has hidden what he has done to every child placed in his care.</p><p></p><p>Hanne could call the police. She doesn't. Across an autumn of migrating geese, storm-season floods the locals call <em>Landunter</em>, and the gathering threat of a man who is closing in by lorry and by tide, four strangers - a surgeon, a boy, a silent girl, and the old ranger who is the last full-time resident of the hallig - begin to become something none of them have been allowed to be in years. A family.</p><p></p><p>But Jonas is only forty-seven days from his eighteenth birthday. The man hunting them knows the calendar. And when he arrives at the stilt-house on a Tuesday morning with paperwork and a smile he has practiced for forty years, the next tide is already closing the only way home.</p><p></p><p>A novel of breathtaking atmosphere, ferocious tenderness, and a final dark hour readers will not forget, <em>Wild Dark Shore</em> is about the families we are given, the families we make, and the small impossible choices in which we choose them.</p>

• Wild Dark Shore: The Stilt-House on the Vanishing Island, (Paperback)
• Author: Erika Berlanga
• ISBN: 9798256010560
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-05-15
• Page Count: 184