Into the Fragile Dark

A dazzling literary love story for summer 2027
A sweeping, simmering and lush debut novel of love, lost innocence and secrets long-hidden on an apple orchard in Upstate New York.

A sweeping, simmering and lush debut novel of love, lost innocence and secrets long-hidden on an apple orchard in Upstate New York.

Vie Clairmont doesn’t know who she is without the Clairmont land – without the sweet scent of the apples, the beehives, the secret swimming hole. and the graves she visits with her infirm father each week. So when she learns that he took out a loan decades before, that will become due for repayment upon his death, she realises that unless she stops it they will lose everything they have worked for.

Her husband wants to sell anyway, but Vie can’t bear to leave the legacy her ancestors built. When a mysterious young man turns up looking for work, and promising her his help to save the orchard, she is insti