Set across multiple time periods beginning in the early 20th century, the novel places two close young women inside a secluded, quasi-religious community on a Scottish island.

Set around a near-future global election system in which small, competitive micro-democracies (centers of political power) and powerful information platforms shape outcomes, the book follows intersecting characters whose loyalties, jobs, and survival link to campaigns, corporate interests, and the flow of data.

A newly placed woman at a secluded country house confronts eerie, inexplicable phenomena tied to the home’s past while she navigates grief, social scrutiny, and household secrets. The book sets up a slow-building collision between domestic routine and uncanny intrusions that heighten psychological strain.

A live-in nanny takes a job at a remote, high-tech Scottish house and later finds herself accused of a murder that occurred there.

A methodical police investigation into a series of linked killings anchors the book: detectives follow cryptic clues that connect victims and a recurring symbolic motif as they race to identify a serial perpetrator.

A speculative epidemic causes people to lose their shadows and, with them, memories and names; survivors must cope with erasing personal history while some exploit or hunt the newly nameless. The setup focuses on how memory failure reshapes relationships, social order, and survival choices in a collapsing world.

In Lagos, a practical older sister wrestles with protecting her younger, more glamorous sister after the younger woman repeatedly kills romantic partners. The central pressure is the older sister’s daily management of evidence, social optics, and her own conflicted devotion while fearing discovery and moral compromise.

A small, remote English setting hosts a tightly observed family story in which religious rites, interpersonal strain, and mysterious occurrences create sustained unease.

A fictional reimagining of a doomed overland expedition in the 19th-century American West that places characters under escalating scarcity and suspicion.