The New York Times- bestselling author presents a modern retelling of Beowulf as two suburban moms fight to protect those they love. To its distinguished residents, the suburban enclave of Herot Hall is a paradise. Picket fences and meticulous homes line the streets, and the community is entirely self-sustaining. But for those who live along Herot Hall's periphery, the subdivision is a fortress guarded by an intense network of gates, surveillance cameras, and motion-activated lights. As wife of the heir to Herot Hall, Willa Herot enjoys a languid life of mommy groups, cocktail hours, and dinner parties-always with her son Dylan in tow. Meanwhile, in a cave outside town lives Gren, short for Grendel, and his mother, Dana, a former soldier who gave birth as if by chance.
Dana didn't want Gren, didn't plan Gren, and doesn't know how she got Gren. But when she returned from war, there he was. Then Gren unwittingly ventures into Herot Hall. And when runs off with Dylan, Dana's and Willa's worlds collide.
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Maria Dahvana Headley is a #1 New York Times-bestselling author & editor. Her books include the novels Magonia, Aerie, Queen of Kings, and the memoir The Year of Yes. With Kat Howard she is the author of The End of the Sentence, and with Neil Gaiman, she is co-editor of Unnatural Creatures. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards, and her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony and by Arte Studio Ginestrelle, where the first draft of this book was written. She was raised with a wolf and a pack of sled dogs in the high desert of rural Idaho, and now lives in Brooklyn.