Scorpion Deep by CG Drews

Publishes 29 Oct 2026
 
A dark, intoxicating and deeply unsettling queer YA horror about a lonely boy and a sinister sea god risen from the deep, from the New York Times bestselling author of Don't Let the Forest In and Hazelthorn. 
 
The only thing Jonathan wants from the mouldering isle of Kelcarrow is to escape. Summer is ending, and when his friends leave for college on the mainland, Jonathan will be alone with nothing but the ocean haunts. In an act of wild desperation, Jonathan pays a tithe to Scorpion Deep's obsession darkens, Jonathan realises the only way to end the nightmare is to destroy the monster. 
 
But the price must be paid in blood.