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THE NIGHT THAT FINDS US ALL

John Hornor Jacobs

This first-person chilling tale follows a troubled sailboat captain who joins a crew to deliver a massive 100-year-old yacht from Seattle to England - a journey that challenges her already tenuous grip on sanity.
It begins and ends as always, with the sea. Sam Vines is struggling. Her boat is up on the hard and she doesn't have enough money to get her back in the water. Turns out the snorkelers and the scubadivers are looking for the ultra-luxury boating experience, not the single-handed, rarely sober, snarky stylings of sailboat captain Samantha Vines. So it's a good thing when her former crewmate Loick asks her to help deliver a massive, hundred-year-old sailboat from Seattle to England. Sam is the only one who can handle the ship's engine, and did Loick mention that the money is good? It's very good. The Blackwatch is a huge boat. An ancient boat. It's also probably (definitely) haunted. Someone's standing on deck, no wait, they're gone. Wet feet slap against the wood at night. Something screams, a wail that rises up through the rigging. Sam's alcohol withdrawal (sobriety is important at sea) has her doubting her senses, but when one crewmate disappears and another has a gruesome accident, she knows that this simple delivery job has spiraled into something sinister. By turns terrifying, darkly funny, thought-provoking, and heartfelt, THE NIGHT THAT FINDS US ALL will seduce you with its salty nightmare lullaby. John Hornor Jacobs is an award-winning author of genre-bending adult and YA fiction, a screenwriter, and co-creator of the (forthcoming) narrative podcast, The Listening Station. His first novel, Southern Gods, was a Bram Stoker finalist and winner of the Darrell Award. He was shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award for his collection, A Lush and Seething Hell which has been optioned for television.
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Published 2025-10-07 by Putnam