From award winning author Daryl Gregory, a thrilling and colorful
Lovecraftian adventure of a teenage boy searching for his mother, and
the macabre creatures he encounters.
Harrison Harrison--H2 to his mom--is a lonely teenager who's been
terrified of the water ever since he was a toddler in California when a
huge sea creature capsized their boat and his father vanished. One of
the "sensitives" who are attuned to the supernatural world, Harrison,
together with his marine biologist mother, has just moved to the worst
possible place for a boy like him: Dunnsmouth, Massachusetts, a
Lovecraftian town perched on rocks above the Atlantic where strange
things go on by night, monsters lurk under the waves, and creepy
teachers run the local high school.
On Harrison's first day at school, his mother disappears at sea.
Harrison must attempt to solve the mystery of her accident, which puts
him in conflict with a strange church, a knife-wielding killer, and the
Deep Ones: fish-human hybrids that live in the bay. It will take all his
resources--and an unusual host of allies--to defeat the danger and find
his mother.