Man Eater: A Novel

From the Stoker-nominated author of Where the Dead Wait and All the White Spaces comes a feminist Gothic horror novel in which a botanist searching for a rare orchid encounters an inhuman presence lurking in the jungle shadows...

1901. Minerva Sandford is an adventure-seeker, a botanist-and a reluctant wife. Part of a family of exotic plant-hunters, she chafes at the lack of autonomy in her chilly marriage and is horrified by her sole "purpose" being to produce a male heir. She leaps on the ...