Nowhere Burning

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A USA Today bestseller!

“Anyone who has reached a hand toward the night sky will understand the beautifully incurable ache for belonging at the heart of Nowhere Burning, the latest unsettling fairytale from Catriona Ward.”–Christopher Buehlman, New York Times bestselling author of Between Two Fires

Secrets in the flames. Answers in the ashes.

Riley and her brother Oliver set off in the pitch-black night, fleeing their troubled home. They are heading for Nowhere–an abandoned ranch, once the playground of its former eccentric movie-star owner, now a haven for runaways.

What awaits could be the freedom they crave.

But this mysterious clan guards dark secrets, and the scorched grounds hold the ghosts of the past. Riley quickly realizes that while she and Oliver may have escaped the devil they knew, something darker lurks in the burnt shell of Nowhere.

Something which asks a terrible price for sanctuary…

Nowhere Burning is a harrowing tale of survival that places the dark fairy tale of Peter Pan and the ruthless dangers of Lord of the Flies into the unforgiving maw of the Colorado Rockies.

Also by Catriona Ward:
Looking Glass Sound
Sundial
Little Eve
The Last on Needless Street

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Catriona Ward
Published: 02/24/2026
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
ISBN: 9781250860057
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 1.06″ H x 9.43″ L x 6.60″ W

About the Author
CATRIONA WARD is the USA Today bestselling author of Looking Glass Sound. She 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. Sundial won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Hardcover Novel.