Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward

Set in the unforgiving maw of the Rocky Mountains, Nowhere Burning is the latest harrowing novel from bestselling author Catriona Ward, perfect for fans of The Last House on Needless Street and the series Yellowjackets.

Secrets in the flames. Answers in the ashes.

In the middle of the night, Riley pulls her younger brother Oliver out of bed, and the two run away from home. Riley is intent on joining a group of teenagers squatting in the abandoned ruins of an infamous movie star’s ranch, Nowhere. For actor Leaf Winham, Nowhere was a place to hide from his fame, and to hide his crimes—until a fire ravaged his home and exposed him as a murderer.

It is rumored that the ranch nestled in the peaks of the Rocky Mountains is now home to group of feral children, a place where adults cannot enter, and Riley hopes to find a new family there. But the Nowhere Kids are fierce in defending their turf and their clan, and Riley quickly realizes that while she and Oliver may have left the devil they knew, this group is a new type of diabolical.

For something dark lives in the burned shell of Nowhere, something which asks a terrible price for sanctuary...

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Praise for this book

Praise for Looking Glass Sound

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER • A Best Book of 2023 (Vulture) • A Best Horror Book of All Time (Cosmopolitan) • A Best Horror Book of 2023 (Esquire) •

"Here's your next obsession."

—Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love

"This book will truly haunt you long after you read it."

—Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six

"You’ve read nothing like it before.... Impossibly compelling, brilliantly plotted, and incredibly moving all at once. I think at this point we can all just agree to follow Ward wherever she takes us.”

—Virginia Feito, author of Victorian Psycho

“An irresistible, beautifully written story powered by dread and fascination with the unknown.”

—A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

"Devastatingly beautiful, bone-chilling and enchanting."

—Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark

“Ward’s latest may be her scariest yet.”

—Booklist, STARRED review

“The prose is lyrically metaphorical, taking readers into the story as if they’re shadows of the characters. This is a book about a book, inside a book—an intricate plot with changing perspectives.”

—Library Journal, STARRED review

"In the right hands, narrative can be a kaleidoscope, fracturing into more and more wondrous configurations. I think maybe Catriona Ward spilled a little blood into her kaleidoscope with this one."

—Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

“A tale to savor.”

—Sarah Pearse, New York Times bestselling author of The Sanatorium

“Slyly addictive. Unconventional, imaginative, and brazenly twisted.”

—Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of No Gods for Drowning

"Haunting and immersive."

—Chuck Tingle, bestselling author of Bury Your Gays

“An origami puzzle of a book with edges sharp as a paper cut.”

—Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls

“Ward dazzles with her ability to deliver satisfying narrative surprises at nearly every turn.”

—Publishers Weekly

“With prose of poetic clarity, Looking Glass Sound reveals secret after secret in a structure as intricate and insidiously enmeshing as a cobweb. Haunting, disturbing and beautiful, it's a truly extraordinary book. I think it may well be a masterpiece.”

—Ramsey Campbell

"Ward is an inspired spider and Looking Glass Sound is her most masterful web yet. And we, dear readers, are nothing more than mere flies happily trapped within the pages of this brilliantly intricate novel."

—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

“Enthralling and heartbreaking.”

—M. R. Carey, author of The Girl with All the Gifts

About the Author

CATRIONA WARD was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. She studied English at the University of Oxford and later earned her master’s degree in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Ward is a three-time winner of the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel: for The Girl from Rawblood, her debut; Little Eve; and The Last House on Needless Street. Little Eve also won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel. Ward is the international bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street and Sundial.

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Title: Nowhere Burning
Author(s): Catriona Ward
ISBN: 9781250860064
Copyright 2025
Release Date: October 07, 2025
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Countries: United States, Canada | Learn more about available countries
Language: English
Format: None available | Learn More about our supported formats

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