King Sorrow: the epic new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Arthur Oakes is a bookish student at Rackham College in Maine, a place famous for its beautiful campus, freezing winters, and extraordinary library.

Arthur's peaceful academic life is destroyed when local criminals force him into stealing rare and valuable books from the college library.

Desperate for a way out, Arthur turns to his closest friends for help.

Together, Arthur, Colin Wren, Allison Shiner, twins Donna and Donovan McBride, and Gwen Underfoot become fascinated by an ancient occult text. The book contains instructions for summoning a terrifying supernatural creature known as King Sorrow.

They believe the creature can solve their immediate problems.

And it can.

But there is a price.

The friends make a bargain with an ancient entity that demands regular human sacrifice in exchange for its protection. What begins as an attempt to defeat their enemies becomes a nightmare that follows them for decades.