Black River : Volume 1

Author: Ruby Jean Cottle

Interest age: from c 14 years

Published on 1 January 2026 by Simon & Schuster Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Black River' series.

Paperback | 432 pages
129 x 198 x 29 | 312g

Twilight meets Shatter Me in a mystical new YA paranormal romance series – vampires are BACK.?   All seventeen-year-old Dusty wants is to escape into books and the wilderness that surrounds her mountain home. What she doesn’t know is that there’s something waiting for her in the shadows of the forest.

  One morning, Dusty wakes up with dirt on her feet. Then she realises that her body and senses are changing. And after a chance encounter with quiet and mysterious Will, she feels an attraction unlike anything she’s experienced before. ?As a powerful attraction develops to the quiet and mysterious Will, it isn't only romance making her heart beat faster – it's a thirst . . .?   But Dusty isn’t the only person experiencing strange events in Black River. Darker forces are at play, and Dusty must uncover the mystery – or risk losing everything and everyone she loves…