Hold Back The Tide

From internationally bestselling, acclaimed author MelindaSalisbury comes a darkly seductive story of murder, betrayal,love, and family secrets in a small town in the Scottish Highlands. Here are the rules of living with a murderer.One: Do not draw attention to yourself. Of course, when youlive with a murderer, this is impossible. Even the subtlest ofspectres is bound to be noticed. Which leads to the next rule.Two: If you can't be invisible, be useful.Everyone in this quiet lakeside community knows that Alva's fatherkilled her mother, all those years ago. There wasn't enoughproof to arrest him, though, and with no other family, Alva's beenforced to live with her mother's murderer, doing her best to surviveuntil she can earn enough money to run away.One of her chores is to monitor water levels in the loch-a taskher father takes very seriously. Their family has been the guardianof the loch for generations. It's a cold, lonely task, and afew times, Alva can swear she feels someone watching her.But the more Alva investigates, the more she realizes that thetruth can be more monstrous than lies, and that you can never escapeyour past . . . Gripping literary horror/thriller with a topical ecological edge Unsettling, sharply beautiful and thought-provokingMelinda Salisbury's The Sin Eater's Daughter was thebestselling YA debut of 2015 and was shortlisted for the WaterstonesPrize and the Branford Boase Award