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y separately published work icon Monstrous Heart single work   novel   fantasy  
Is part of Deepwater Trilogy Claire McKenna , 2020 series - author novel (number 1 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Monstrous Heart
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'When Arden Beacon is sent to the lighthouse, she is simply a woman with a job to do. She neither seeks, nor expects, distraction. After years tainted by disappointment, Arden is finally taking up her family’s profession. She must prove herself worthy of her name, for she has nothing else.

'But the coast she has been tasked with lighting is far from the world she knows – the salt-swept, backwater town of Vigil is battered by a sea teeming with colossal, ancient beasts. It is a place of secrets, rumours and tight-lipped expectations of a woman’s place.

'More than anyone, the folk of Vigil whisper about Arden’s new neighbour, Jonah Riven, hunter of leviathans. He murdered his wife, they whisper – a perfect, golden girl, full of charm and potential. So very different to Arden Beacon.

'They say he is as much a monster as his prey, but Arden cannot get this dark stranger out of her head.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney South, South Sydney area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Voyager , 2020 .
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      Extent: 400p.p.
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      • Published 2 April 2020.
      ISBN: 9780008337148 (ebk), 0008337144 (ebk)

Works about this Work

Australian Horror Colin Steele , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , July vol. 102 no. 2020; (p. 111-114)

— Review of Monstrous Heart Claire McKenna , 2020 single work novel ; Into Bones Like Oil Kaaron Warren , 2019 single work novella ; The Cobra Queen Tara Moss , 2020 single work novel
[Review] Monstrous Heart Belinda Brady , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 136 2020;

— Review of Monstrous Heart Claire McKenna , 2020 single work novel
[Review] Monstrous Heart Belinda Brady , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 136 2020;

— Review of Monstrous Heart Claire McKenna , 2020 single work novel
Australian Horror Colin Steele , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , July vol. 102 no. 2020; (p. 111-114)

— Review of Monstrous Heart Claire McKenna , 2020 single work novel ; Into Bones Like Oil Kaaron Warren , 2019 single work novella ; The Cobra Queen Tara Moss , 2020 single work novel
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