Nox Winters and the Midnight Wolf (Nox Winters Chronicles #1)

Twelve-year-old identical twin brothers Nox and Noah Winters had never been apart, until Noah was sent to live with their mother’s oncologist friends Weston and Aster Day to treat his mysterious worsening condition, the symptoms of which includes spreading rashes and sores. Soon, however, Nox joins Noah at his dwellings in “middle-of-nowhere” Evergreen, Maine, where Nox chafes at his new environment, worries about his brother, and distrusts the Days, especially their daughter Thea. But when he catches a glowing, six-eyed, wolf-like creature stalking Noah at night and stealing something “golden and bright” from his chest—and Noah falls into a coma thereafter—Nox reluctantly enlists Thea as his companion in investigating. Together, they enter the otherworldly, eternally dark Nightwood, hoping it contains the secret to saving Noah. As they brave Nightwood’s many dangers, the duo unravels family secrets and realizes not all is as it seems. In this creepy duology opener, Hassan (The Summer Queen) unspools a spine-tingling tale packed with riddles, magic, and mystery in which the brothers’ fierce bond grounds the more fantastical elements of the Nightwood’s original and evocative mythology. Main characters read as white. Ages 8–up. Agent: Erica Bauman, Aevitas Creative. (Sept.)