Two narrators. Four books. One of them is lying to you, and it takes 327,000 words to find out which.
An adult psychological and supernatural thriller series. Books 1–2 are Penny’s account; books 3–4 are Jack’s. They describe the same events and they do not agree.
Contains sexual violence, addiction, sexual exploitation of minors, murder and a detailed depiction of attempted suicide.
The Curse – Book 1
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Series Release Date: 28th October 2023
Series Publisher: HCP
She can give anyone any ability she can imagine.
She can never give herself anything.
Penny Black is thirteen the first time it happens. A stray dog corners her best friend in the park and Penny thinks run faster — and Abbey does. Abbey never stops running. Four years later she is running for her country.
That is when Penny learns the first rule.
Every gift takes something back.
A boy who humiliates her. A girl who writes about her on a toilet wall. A mother who has been at the bottom of a bottle since Penny was five. Penny gives each of them precisely what she thinks they deserve — and every time, something comes loose that she cannot put back.
Because a gift cannot be undone. It can only be withdrawn. And what is left behind is never what was there before.
She is not a hero. By the end of this book she has watched something unforgivable happen and said nothing, because she caused it.
Somewhere, decades ago, a government did something to a generation of children and then lost control of it.
Penny is what they made. She has no idea yet.
Reader note: this is adult fiction. Contains sexual violence, coercive relationships, drug use and suicidal ideation.
The Rebel – Book 2
Penny Black is seventeen, lives alone, and has not used her gift in four months.
That is the mistake.
She thought that giving it up was the responsible thing to do. What nobody has told her is that the thing inside her does not tolerate being ignored — and that when it is starved, it does not weaken.
It arranges her life instead.
Over one long summer it hands her a drug dealer who calls heroin glucose syrup, a man who books her for the evening and turns out to be her Biology teacher, and a school that decides on the eighth day of term exactly what she is.
And it hands her Joy.
Joy Omolaya has been in a care home for three years. Nobody has visited. Nobody knows she is awake in there — no sight, no sensation, no way to signal, three years alone inside her own head — until a girl walks in with flowers and gives her a voice that only Penny can hear.
For the first time in her life, Penny tells someone everything.
She does not tell anyone else.
Because when she finally finds people who understand what she is, they will have a name for it, an explanation for it, and a set of rules she has already broken. And one of them will know her middle name.
There are only two ways this ends. She has already decided which one.
Reader note: this is adult fiction. Contains heroin addiction, coerced sex work, sexual violence and a detailed depiction of attempted suicide.
The Victim – Book 3
“I am no monster. That much I know.”
That is the first thing Jack Ferguson tells you, and he will spend the rest of this book proving it.
He was eleven when his sister put on a show for him and made sure he was watching. He was fourteen when Penny Black altered his body for a laugh and did not tell him. He was seventeen when she walked him to a clifftop in Margate and tried to kill him.
Two girls did this to him. He is very clear about that.
Now he has been given something nobody has ever been given: thirty years, a clean slate, a country nobody can follow him to, and not one person alive who has heard his name.
Everything that ruined him is three decades in the future. It has not happened yet. It cannot happen.
He steps off a ship in New York as somebody else entirely.
And within eight weeks of a fresh start, he has already done it again.
You will hear his side of every single thing. He is charming, he is plausible, he is occasionally kind, and he is the only witness you have.
Read what he tells you. Then read what he does.
Reader note: this is adult fiction. Contains sexual violence, murder, voyeurism involving minors and sustained misogyny voiced by the narrator.
The Beast – Book 4
Everything you were told in book one was true.
You just didn’t know who you were reading about.
Jack Ferguson has been given more chances than any man alive. A second life. A third. Two separate opportunities to walk away clean, in two separate decades, with nobody hunting him and nothing on his record.
He has spent both of them getting closer to a girl who has not been born yet.
Because Penny Black is out there. Five years old. Then eight. Then thirteen. Growing up two miles from where he now lives, in a town he knows better than she does, in a future he has already survived.
He knows what she will become. He knows what she will do to him.
And he is the only person on earth who can be in the room before it happens.
There is one loose thread left. One thing he never accounted for in seventy-eight years of running, doubling back, and starting again — and by the time somebody finally explains it to him, it is already at the door.
The Beast is the concluding book of The Enchanti Generation.
Go back to book one afterwards. It is a different novel now.
Reader note: this is adult fiction. Contains sexual violence, sexual assault in custody, murder, child sexual exploitation and addiction.
For readers of Naomi Alderman’s The Power, Lauren Beukes’s The Shining Girls and Caroline Kepnes’s You.
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