Creatures of Want & Ruin

A Prohibition era bootlegger faces a temperance group with a diabolical secret in this “profound and enthralling” supernatural thriller (Seanan McGuire, bestselling, award-winning author of In an Absent Dream).

Amityville fisherwoman Ellie West spends her nights bootlegging moonshine. As an independent operator, she faces deadly opposition from both federal agents and mobsters. But Ellie is desperate to send her brother to college. So desperate that when wealthy strangers ask her to procure libations for an extravagant party, Ellie sells them some booze she acquired under unusual circumstances.

What Ellie doesn’t know is that this booze is special. Distilled from foul mushrooms by a cult of diabolists, those who drink it see terrible things—like the destruction of Long Island in fire and flood. The cult is masquerading as a church promising salvation through temperance and a return to “the good old days,” so it’s hard for Ellie to take a stand against them—especially when her father joins. But Ellie loves Long Island, and her family, and she’ll do whatever it takes to ensure neither is torn apart.