Tomorrow We'll Be Prey

"A riveting gothic debut about family, power, and beasts both real and imagined, told by two women centuries apart, for fans of Sarah Perry and Charlotte McConaghy Ava, an archivist at Paris's National Library, spends her days digitizing rare manuscripts, carefully avoiding thoughts of her ex-girlfriend and her strained relationship with her mother back home in Boston. Her quiet life is upended when she discovers the Book of the Beast, an 18th-century manuscript recounting the story of Marie-Jeanne Valès, a maid who faced the infamous Beast of the Gévaudan. Believed to have killed over a hundred women and children, its true nature has remained a mystery for centuries. The tale is eerily familiar to Ava, who was told from childhood that one of her ancestors encountered the devil in the form of a beast in the woods, and bested it in a fight, triggering a generation-spanning curse on the family. Driven by curiosity and haunted by her past, Ava steals the manuscript and embarks on a journey through France to uncover the truth behind the Beast and her family's dark legacy.