The Bog Wife

"The Haddesley siblings know this: They are bound by ancient compact to care for the bog. In return, the bog cares for them and provides a wife for the eldest Haddesley son. The rules are strict; their lives, isolated. But now their father is dying, the bog is failing, and the sibling who left must be called back. The Bog Wife builds slowly, effectively weaving claustrophobic dread with family dysfunction, myth with secrets. Eerie eco-horror meets bog gothic is a subgenre of gothic I didn’t know I needed until now. For fans of Jeff VanderMeer, T. Kingfisher, and James Frazer’s The Golden Bough."