Into the Jungle

Featured in the New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Guide * A Crime by the Book ΓÇ£Most AnticipatedΓÇ¥ Novel * Featured in the New York Post Summer Round Up * Starred Publishers Weekly Review * A Publishers Weekly ΓÇ£Big Summer BooksΓÇ¥ * A Kirkus Reviews ΓÇ£Creepy ThrillersΓÇ¥ Pick In this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of the ΓÇ£haunting,twisting thrill rideΓÇ¥ (Megan MirandaNew York Times bestselling author) The River at Nighta young woman leaves behind everything she knows to take on the Bolivian junglebut her excursion abroad quickly turns into a fight for her life. Lily Bushwold thought sheΓÇÖd found the antidote to endless foster care and group homes: a teaching job in CochabambaBolivia. As soon as she could steal enough cash for the planeshe was on it. When the gig falls through and Lily stays in Boliviashe finds bonding with other brokerudderless girls at the local hostel isnΓÇÖt the life she wants either. Tired of hustling and already world-wearycrazy love finds her in the form she least expected: Omara savvyhandsome local man whoΓÇÖd abandoned his life as a hunter in AyacheroΓÇöa remote jungle villageΓÇöto try his hand at city life. When Omar learns that a jaguar has killed his four-year-old nephew in Ayacherohe gives Lily a choice: Stay alone in the unforgiving cityor travel to the last in a string of ever-more-isolated river towns in the jungles of Bolivia. Thirty-foot anaconda? Puppy-sized spiders? Vengeful shamans with unspeakable powers? Love-struck Lily is oblivious. She follows Omar to this ruthless new world of lawless poachersbullheaded missionariesand desperate indigenous tribes driven to the brink of extinction. To surviveLily must navigate the jungle–its wonders as well as its terrorsΓÇöusing only her wits and resilience. Primalgrippingand terrifyingInto the Jungle features Erica FerencikΓÇÖs signature ΓÇ£visceralwhite-knuckleΓÇ¥ (Entertainment Weekly) prose that will sink its fangs into you and not let go.