ABOUT THE STORY
Teddy is troubled by long-held secrets and poorly controlled anger. His only solace is the letters he exchanges with his estranged uncle, famed adventure writer Martin Sable. When the letters are discovered and Teddy’s connection is cut off, he slips away to his uncle’s remote mansion, Wit’s End.
But there are more troubles waiting within the house. Martin is missing, and a mysterious stranger from his past is tearing Wit’s End apart, room by room. As Teddy tries to find out what happened to his uncle, he encounters nightmarish visions of a skeletal figure, drowning in ink, determined to drag Teddy down with it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ethan M. Aldridge is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator. He is the creator of the gothic mystery novel DEEPHAVEN (A New York Public Library selection for Best Books Of 2023, A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection, nominated for the Mythopoeic Award), the fantasy graphic novel duology ESTRANGED (a JLG selection, Indie Bestseller, and YALSA Great Graphic Novel For Teens), THE LEGEND OF BRIGHTBLADE (an American Library Association pick for Best Graphic Novels For Children), and more. Ethan was raised in a small town in Utah. Growing up, his favorite things to draw were monsters and whatever dinosaur he liked most that week. He now does more or less the same thing for a living. He lives in New York City with his husband, Matthew, and their dog, Kitsune.
