In a coastal town on the Outer Carolina Banks, David Ribault and Merrill Poulnot are trying to revive their stale relationship and commit to marriage, and a slick developer claiming to be related to a historic town hero, Rawson Steele, has come to town and is buying up property. Steele makes a romantic advance on Merrill and an unusual 5 a.m appointment outside of town with David. But Steele is a no-show, and at the time of the appointment everyone in the town disappears, removed entirely from our space and time to a featureless isolated village-including Merrill and her young son. David searches desperately but all seems lost for Steele is in the other village with Merrill.
Kit Reed's Where is a spooky, unsettling speculative fiction.
"When the 100 inhabitants of Kraven Island find themselves "removed" to a facsimile of their settlement in the desert, down-home southern American etiquette turns to violence as they confront the inexplicable. Reed is particularly skilled at getting inside the heads of her (mainly) likable cast and showing how they have been fractured by past events. In condensed, vernacular prose, she uses the di
Eric Brown, The Guardian
"The set-up is very Twilight Zone but Reed turns it into an eerie, bruising exploration of loss. A true original, she skilfully depicts how people under pressure succumb to their worst impulses."
