{"product_id":"wild-dark-shore-erika-berlanga-9798256068752","title":"Wild Dark Shore: The Stilt-House on the Vanishing Island","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - Mireille Hawthorne\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A FIERCELY GIFTED new voice.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - Tomas Aldering\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Absolutely DEVASTATING. Berlanga writes the small dark hours like no one else.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - Saskia Vrey\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"SPELLBINDING...Exceptionally tender, ferociously alive.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - Linnea Korhonen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"My absolute FAVORITE book of the year.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - Wren Falkenberg\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA grieving surgeon. Two children in hiding. A vanishing island where the tide takes everything back.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. 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 M llesand, a tiny marsh island in the German Wadden Sea that disappears under the sea twice a day. Her only home will be the \u003cem\u003ePfahlhaus Sturmvogel\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeventeen-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHanne could call the police. She doesn't. Across an autumn of migrating geese, storm-season floods the locals call \u003cem\u003eLandunter\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA novel of breathtaking atmosphere, ferocious tenderness, and a final dark hour readers will not forget, \u003cem\u003eWild Dark Shore\u003c\/em\u003e is about the families we are given, the families we make, and the small impossible choices in which we choose them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erika Berlanga\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798256068752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Erika Berlanga LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarge Print\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Erika Berlanga","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48742228721919,"sku":"9798256068752","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wild-dark-shore-erika-berlanga-9798256068752","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}