Harrison Squared

Description

Ages 14 - 17 years Harrison Harrison-H2 to his mum-is a lonely teenager who's been terrified of the water ever since he was a toddler in California, when a huge sea creature capsized their boat, and his father vanished. One of the "sensitives" who are attuned to the supernatural world, Harrison and his mother have just moved to the worst possible place for a boy like him: Dunnsmouth, a Lovecraftian town perched on rocks above the Atlantic, where strange things go on by night, monsters lurk under the waves, and creepy teachers run the local high school. On Harrison's first day at school, his mother, a marine biologist, disappears at sea. Harrison must attempt to solve the mystery of her accident, which puts him in conflict with a strange church, a knife-wielding killer, and the Dwellers, fish-human hybrids that live in the bay. It will take all his resources-and an unusual host of allies-to defeat the danger and find his mother.

Daryl Gregory is an award-winning science fiction author. His first novel, Pandemonium, won the Crawford Award, and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. The Devil's Alphabet was a Philip K. Dick Award finalist and was named by Publishers Weekly as one of the best books of the year. His third book, Raising Stony Mayhall was a Library Journal Best Book of 2011. He lives in State College, PA.