Get ready for Spooky season with us this August!
You can celebrate the release New York Times bestselling author of The Wilderwood Duology, Hannah Whitten's first full-length work of horror, Reliquary, with us at Riverstone Books.
Make sure to get your tickets before they sell out, you won't want to miss this one!
See below for all details regarding the event and please reach out to us if you have any questions.
Doors will open at 5:30pm, the event will start at 6:00pm.
Every Book Bundle and Book Bundle+1 ticket will include one, signed, hardcover copy of Reliquary and will be available for pick-up at check-in for the event. General admission tickets do not include a book.
Additional copies will be available for sale at the event plus a limited number of copies of Hannah Whitten's other titles.
For those who wish, you will be able to get your book personalized after the event. Due to limited time, you may only get one book signed/personalized. This can include a book brought from home. All books purchased from Riverstone at the event will be pre-signed.
Your email confirmation will serve as your ticket. You may print it out and bring it or show us the confirmation on your phone at check-in.
Event tickets are non-refundable within 7 days before the event (8/6 and later).
Ticketholders unable to attend the event will be able to pick up their books at either store location or have it shipped to them for $5.95. We will hold books for up to 4 weeks after the event. After 4 weeks, unclaimed books will no longer be available. We will send out an email to absentees to coordinate which store you would like to pick it up at or if you would like it shipped.
This ticketed event will take place at the Hampton Community Center (3200 Lochner Wy, Allison Park, PA 15101). The facility has a large parking lot.
About the book:
A young woman is lured to her late fiancé's remote island estate—only to uncover eerie family secrets, a haunting past, and a monstrous hunger stirring beneath the sea in this deliciously atmospheric horror debut from New York Times bestselling author Hannah Whitten.
When Claire’s fiancé mysteriously dies of an unknown neurological illness, she’s prepared to sink back into the lonely life she lived before. Orphaned by a freak boating accident in her childhood, she never expected to find connection like she did with Elias, anyway. Their relationship wasn’t perfect—his coldness, his secrets, his strange aversion to the ocean—but what relationship is?
When Elias’s family reaches out—his incredibly wealthy family, from whom he was estranged—and invites Claire to a three-day wake at Harrow Point, their family home on a private island, Claire is given the chance to find family again. To belong to something, just like she’s always wanted. Just like Elias knew she was desperate to have.
Even if that family is a little strange. Even if their coastal home stirs up memories of the accident that killed her parents and sister. Even if Ash, Elias’s older brother, seems insistent on Claire leaving as soon as possible.
As she dives deeper into the world of Harrow Point, she will uncover the nature of her own traumatic connection to the ocean. There is something swimming in the bowels of Harrow Point, and it is hungry…
About the Author
Hannah Whitten has been writing to amuse herself since she could hold a pen, and sometime in high school, she figured out that what amused her might also amuse others. When she's not writing, she's reading, making music, or attempting to bake. She lives in Tennessee with her husband and children in a house ruled by a temperamental cat.
About the conversation partner:
Gwendolyn Kiste is the four-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens, Reluctant Immortals, Boneset & Feathers, Pretty Marys All in a Row, The Haunting of Velkwood, and the upcoming novel, In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in outlets including Lit Hub, Nightmare, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, CrimeReads, Titan Books, The Lineup, and The Dark. She's a Lambda Literary Award winner, and her fiction has also received the This Is Horror Award for Novel of the Year as well as nominations for the Shirley Jackson, Premios Kelvin, Ignotus, and Dragon Awards. Originally from Ohio, she now resides on an abandoned horse farm outside of Pittsburgh with her husband, their excitable calico cat, and not nearly enough ghosts. Find her online at gwendolynkiste.com