# Wild Dark Shore: The Stilt-House on the Vanishing Island - Paperback

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by **Erika Berlanga** (Author)

**_"A breathtaking debut of SUSPENSE, GRIEF, AND CHOSEN FAMILY that will undo you and rebuild you on the same page...I could not stop reading."_ - Mireille Hawthorne**

**_"A FIERCELY GIFTED new voice."_ - Tomas Aldering**

**_"Absolutely DEVASTATING. Berlanga writes the small dark hours like no one else."_ - Saskia Vrey**

**_"SPELLBINDING...Exceptionally tender, ferociously alive."_ - Linnea Korhonen**

**_"My absolute FAVORITE book of the year."_ - Wren Falkenberg**

**A grieving surgeon. Two children in hiding. A vanishing island where the tide takes everything back.**

Dr. Hanne Voss is a trauma surgeon who has forgotten how to make decisions. Fourteen months after losing her husband, she takes a winter caretaker post on Halligen M llesand, a tiny marsh island in the German Wadden Sea that disappears under the sea twice a day. Her only home will be the _Pfahlhaus Sturmvogel_, a 1950s research station built on six wooden stilts above the salt marsh. She expects six months of silence. She finds the silence already broken.

Seventeen-year-old Jonas and his fourteen-year-old sister Emi have been hiding in the stilt-house for twelve days. Jonas has been protecting Emi for two and a half years. Emi has not spoken aloud in fourteen months. The man they are running from is a respected Hamburg pediatric dentist, a church deacon - a man whose forty-year public face has hidden what he has done to every child placed in his care.

Hanne could call the police. She doesn't. Across an autumn of migrating geese, storm-season floods the locals call _Landunter_, and the gathering threat of a man who is closing in by lorry and by tide, four strangers - a surgeon, a boy, a silent girl, and the old ranger who is the last full-time resident of the hallig - begin to become something none of them have been allowed to be in years. A family.

But Jonas is only forty-seven days from his eighteenth birthday. The man hunting them knows the calendar. And when he arrives at the stilt-house on a Tuesday morning with paperwork and a smile he has practiced for forty years, the next tide is already closing the only way home.

A novel of breathtaking atmosphere, ferocious tenderness, and a final dark hour readers will not forget, _Wild Dark Shore_ is about the families we are given, the families we make, and the small impossible choices in which we choose them.

**Number of Pages:** 184

**Dimensions:** 0.39 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN

**Publication Date:** May 15, 2026

**Large Print:** Yes

## Details

- **Price:** 35.78 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Family Life, Fiction, Literary, Suspense, Thrillers

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