A love story as fierce and mysterious as the sea itself.
Annie MacLeod always knew she was different, growing up on a boat in the Pacific Northwest, navigating by the stars and living in sync with the ocean. But when a tsunami shatters her world and her parents are swept away, Annie is stranded on land, grief-stricken, despite her enduring love for her childhood sweetheart, Evan.
In the wreckage, Annie rescues a wordless man named Walker, who emits a hum only she can hear. Their connection is instant, elemental, and Annie is torn between the two men. When Walker disappears, Annie must decide between evacuating with Evan or staying to uncover the secrets Walker held.
Six years later, Annie has buried the past. But when Walker’s otherworldly sound returns, it forces a reckoning in her soul with the ocean life she’s left behind.
The Wild Beneath is a spellbinding story of soulmates, sacrifice and the ancient bonds that tie us all to the natural world.
For fans of Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore, Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing and Miranda Cowley Heller’s The Paper Palace.
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‘Anderson’s book is ethereal, languid, crafted of language that rushes and recedes like a tide, buoying a story that reminds us sometimes the impossible is possible.’
‘An entrancing, magical novel that highlights the beauty of the natural world and our fragile place within it. Spellbinding!’
‘In The Wild Beneath, debut author Kelly Anderson elegantly blurs the line between nature and humanity, illuminating the deep, unseen currents that connect us—to each other and to the natural world. Readers won’t so much read this novel as feel it. I’ll never look at the ocean the same way again. Absolutely dazzling.’
‘An incandescent debut…reminds us of the beauty and mystery of being alive.’
‘The Wild Beneath is a song of a book, haunting and beautiful and strange, rich and lingering. It drew me in like the pull of the sea.’
