Dawn Kurtagich is the award-winning and #1 Amazon Bestselling author of The Wellness Retreat, The Seventh Sister, The Thorns, The Madness, Blood on the Wind, Teeth in the Mist, And the Trees Crept In (The Creeper Man), and The Dead House. Her work has been named Buzz Books selections, YALSA Top 10 picks, Audie Award nominees, and Earphone Award winners, with one novel optioned for television.
If you love eerie sisterhoods, sentient houses, forgotten gods, or stories where reality warps at the edges, you’ll feel right at home here—just bring your personal demons along for a good time.
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THE WELLNESS RETREAT, Autumn 2026
Perfection comes at a cost…
A Picture of Dorian Grey meets A Cure for Wellness in this suspenseful, horror-tinted thriller set at an exclusive health retreat on a remote Scottish island, where miraculous treatments offered to wealthy clientele may not be precisely what they seem.
Jaimie Vane used to measure her life in concert halls and standing ovations. Now she measures it in symptoms. The chronic illness that ended her career as a cellist doesn't have a name or a cure-just a long list of things her body can't do anymore.
When her wild child younger sister Sybil reinvents herself as a live-in staffer at an ultra-exclusive wellness retreat, Jaimie assumes it's another phase.
Until her messages stop.
Until the voucher arrives.
Talamh Dhubh, a black-sand island in the middle of a wintery sea and home to Saoghal Spa, is a place for guests to be reborn. The founder, the enigmatic and glamorous Cyan Blache, promises restoration. Clarity. Transcendence. Whatever ails you, Saoghal will draw it from you. For guests willing to surrender completely, body and soul, the results are nothing short of miraculous.
Jaimie tells herself she's only there to find Sybil. Not to drink organic detox smoothies or pour herself onto canvas in art therapy. Not to lie in the mineral baths and bask in the curiously soothing black mud. Not to believe the guests and staff who say Saoghal changed their lives.
But the longer she stays, the lighter her body feels. The quieter her pain becomes. The easier it is to forget what she was like before she got sick.
At Saoghal, healing is real.
And so is the cost.
Because the island doesn't merely cure the visitors who revel in the embrace of its rich, black mud...it ensnares them. And the ones who arrive broken don't always leave.
THE SEVENTH SISTER, Spring 2026
Blood ties. Bone rites. What they summoned was never meant to be gentle.
After the tragic death of their parents, the seven Ward sisters are sent to live with their grandmother on the remote forest island of Beltane, a place suspended between time and shadow. What begins as an attempt to mend their fractured lives soon twists into a waking nightmare, where grief bleeds into childhood fantasy and ancient rites awaken a dark and eerie devotion to Daudir, the Forgotten God of the Wood.
When another cruel tragedy strikes, the sisters are left to fend for themselves, learning to live with death as a constant, lurking presence. The fragile world they’ve carved splinters beneath the weight of isolation, and the forest around them grows restless…
Years later, a cryptic letter summons the surviving sisters home. Drawn back into the wild embrace of their dangerous faith, they confront a truth more terrible than memory, and the dreadful secret that waits, silent and sentient, in the depths of the all-seeing trees.
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