Grave Matter

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Author: Karina Halle

Summary:

When a dream opportunity arises at a prestigious foundation, PhD student Sydney Denik leaves her chaotic life behind and joins a dozen other students at a remote lodge hidden in a fog-shrouded bay on Vancouver Island.

But the Madrona Foundation is home to more than just brilliant minds. Everyone around her is hiding a terrible secret—including the psychologist she's fallen for. A student disappears, and no one but Sydney seems to care. Ghosts wander the halls. Snow falls in the middle of summer. Dead animals move like the living. The more Sydney discovers about the foundation, the more she begins to doubt her own sanity.  

But if Sydney doesn't go crazy, then the horrors in the surrounding forests are real, and the Madrona Foundation could be the biggest monster of all.

Book details

Publisher: VAJONA
Binding: Paperback with flaps
Pages: approx. 350
Release date: January 21, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98718-536-6

genre

Dark Gothic Romance Psych Thriller

Tropes

Professor x Student, Forced Proximity, Obsessed Hero, Slow Burn, Women in STEM, Dark Cottagecore

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Vita

Karina Halle is a screenwriter, former music and travel journalist, and bestselling author for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, with titles such as River of Shadows, The Royals Next Door, and Black Sunshine. She's also the author of 70 other wild and romantic books, ranging from light and sexy romance to horror/paranormal romance and dark fantasy. Needless to say, she's probably written a romance novel for every genre you might like.
When she is not traveling, she and her husband spend their time in a 120-year-old house in Victoria, BC, which may be haunted, on their sailboat Norfinn, and in their condo in Los Angeles.