10 August SFF book releases that will end your summer reading on a high note

House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

Fantasy stories set near or beneath the sea always make great summer reads, and that’s why we’re so excited to dive into Erin A. Craig’s House of Salt and Sorrows this month. Pitched with the tagline “In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed,” the book succeeds at intriguing readers before it’s even opened.

House of Salt and Sorrows follows Annaleigh, one of the twelve sisters living at Highmoor, the manor by the ocean. Annaleigh used to be content with her family life, but by the time the book opens, death has already claimed four of her sisters. Each of the girls’ ends was more horrific than the last, and those outside of Highmoor seem to believe Annaleigh’s family is cursed — but is there any truth to that?

When Annaleigh begins having ghostly visions, she begins to think there might be more to the situation than meets the eye. She realizes that her sisters’ deaths were by no means accidental. As it turns out, they’d all been sneaking out to dance at balls. But Annaleigh questions who or what they were dancing with.

And as she unravels the mystery, she becomes caught up with a peculiar stranger who threatens her own demise. Annaleigh will need to work quickly to uncover what’s really happening — and to stop it before it happens to her.

House of Salt and Sorrows sounds like the perfect suspenseful summer novel to keep SFF readers occupied indoors or at the beach. It hit shelves on August 6, and its dark and whimsical nature sounds like enough to hook anyone who picks it up.