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The Loneliest Place
By (Author) Lora Senf
Illustrated by Alfredo Cceres
Simon & Schuster
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
14th October 2025
Reprint
United States
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Anxiety, depression and self-har
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
Paperback
384
Width 130mm, Height 194mm, Spine 16mm
Evie ventures into the Dark Sun Side to rescue her loved ones, only to discover truths darker than she could have ever imagined in this riveting and wildly imaginative (Kirkus Reviews) finale to the Blight Harbor series thats perfect for fans of Doll Bones and Small Spaces.
As summer comes to an end, Evie Von Rathe is determined to begin the search for her parents in earnest. Armed with her knowledge of the otherworldly, her moms violet glasses, and a pendant full of doors, Evie begins to piece together clues. When she realizes her mothers bedtime story might be a roadmap to finding them, Evie follows it back to the Dark Sun Side.
But stories are funny things, and they change from one teller to the next.
The black nothing of the Radix is waiting, and it knows more than its ever let on. Evie will need every bit of courage she has for whats coming. With Bird at her side, and maybe even a reluctant Lark as well, Evie has what she hopes is her last adventure under a purple sky.
Lora Senf is a writer of dark and twisty stories for all ages. She is the author ofThe Clackity,Bram Stoker Award winnerThe Nighthouse Keeper, andThe Loneliest Place.She credits her love of words to her parents and to the public library that was walking distance from her childhood home. Lora finds inspiration for her writing in her childrens retellings of their dreams, on road trips through Montana, and most recently at a very old plot in an older cemetery. She lives in eastern Washington with her husband, their twins, and two remarkably lazy cats. Visit her atLoraSenf.com.