'Nick Lake weaves Haiti’s dark past with it's painful present
into a story that is gripping, moving and uplifting ...
In Darkness is stunningly original'
William Sutcliffe

Trapped beneath the rubble of the Haitian earthquake of 2012,
a teenage boy is terrified, desperate and alone.

A child of the slums, Shorty has been drawn into the world of the gangsters who rule this broken city,
a world that turns dreams into dust and boys into killers.

But Shorty has a secret: a flame of revenge that burns inside him, a flame that fires his resolve
to find the twin sister stolen from him seven years ago.

In darkness the lines between the present and the past begin to blur and, as Shorty fights for his life,
his struggle becomes part of a two-hundred-year-old story – a story of courage and betrayal, of freedom and hope.

For Shorty may not be quite as alone as he believes.

Sometimes, on the other side of darkness, there is only death . . . and sometimes there is light.

Published globally in January 2012 by Bloomsbury in the UK, US and Australia, In Darkness will be
released simultaneously in adult and young adult editions in the UK.

Nick Lake is the Editorial Director for Fiction for HarperCollins Children’s Books and In Darkness
is his first book for adults and older teen readers. He discovered Haitian culture as part of his
Master’s Degree in Linguistics and has since been fascinated by it.

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