Where We Go at Night

To name a thing is to see it, and no one can see the folk if they don’t want to be seen.
Trixie Gerwin’s hometown of Wood’s Crossing is mind-numbingly dull—but she knows that a beguiling world of fae and magic lurks in the shadows. Growing up, it felt to Trixie like her Pops spent more time with them—those creatures, Mama used to say—than in their own world, with her.
When Trixie sneaks home past curfew the night of graduation, she expects Pops to give her the usual talking-to. Instead, her world is shattered: She witnesses his brutal murder in a moment so sudden, so uncanny, so inhuman, that she’s powerless to stop it. The townies, willfully blind to what surrounds them, will blame wild animals. They’ll call it an accident, a tragedy. They’ll expect Trixie to move on.
But Trixie saw the unknowable thing that really did this. And she won’t let the fae get away with it. Pulled into a war full of intrigue, deceit, and temptation, Trixie will stop at nothing in her fight for vengeance—for Pops, for Wood’s Crossing. No matter what it takes.

Ikwo Ntekim is a Nigerian-born writer who has lived in the United States since she was a kid. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Stony Brook Southampton where her fiction appeared in The Southampton Review. She's been an indie bookseller for many years and lives in Queens, New York. Her Big 3 placements are Sailor Moon sun, Sailor Saturn moon, and Sailor Venus rising. Where We Go At Night is her debut novel.