Direct Descendant

By Tanya Huff

Book Overview

This cozy horror novel set in modern-day Toronto includes phenomenal characters, fantastic writing, and a queer romance--the perfect balance of dark and delightful This stand-alone novel from the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0756420695
• ISBN13: 9780756420697
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Daw Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fun read!

For a town that has made an agreement with the Dark, this story did end up being quite a cozy fun read. All is well in the town of Lake Argen, with the townsfolk going about their daily lives and occasionally skewering shadows that might kill you if you leave your window open at night or being chosen as a guardian or one of the representatives (ex. the Mouth, or Hands of the Dark) until the day that a visitor arrives and decides to s word himself causing no end of new issues. Enter Melanie, hired to see what the heck is going on in this town and Cassidy, the Mouth of the Dark trying to keep the peace and keep the town from ruin. I thought it was nicely cozy, humorous and sweet, even with the hell hounds, occasional little cute eldritch horrors escaping through a crack to to the town and teens skewering shadows with marshmallow sticks. It was kind of funny how many odd things seemed so normal for this town like vegan guardian Jeffrey, or Alice or having town meetings with the representatives and speaking to the dark through them. There is also love, and I like that because of it, the town has a chance of being saved and going back to normal (or as normal as a town that that has an agreement with eldritch beings in exchange for safety and prosperity, though you still shouldn't swim past those buoys on the lake!).