A debut novel

Everyone in Argentmere is keeping something.

Silver Solstice: Secrets of Argentmere, by Danii Lee.

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A debut novel

Every summer, Pip comes home to Argentmere.

This one is wrong from the first hour.

Everyone here is keeping something.

Silver Solstice

Secrets of Argentmere. A debut novel by Danii Lee.

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The hardback of Silver Solstice standing on a dark wooden table by candlelight, beside old books and a rolled map.

The story

She came back for the summer. She found a town with its mouth shut.

Penelope Bennett has spent every summer of her life in Argentmere. This year her grandparents are gone, her mother stayed behind, and the founding families’ elusive facade is starting to crack. Pip is proud and Pip is curious, when she begins to uncover the deception that has built the foundation of Argentmere, will she be enough to save it, or will everything around her come falling down? The Summer Solstice is coming, and the town has been counting on nobody asking.

The place

Small enough that everyone knows. Small enough that everyone agrees not to say.

A square, a store, a bakery, an old keep, and a fishing jetty small enough to walk in a minute. The farms fill the valley behind it and the mountains encase the furthest western point that any person dares travel; and the old train that is the living and breathing connection of it all. Above the village the road runs north under old oaks so thick you cannot see the ground on either side of it, which is convenient for the people living behind them and convenient, later, for four unlikely friends on a mission to uncover it all.

An illustrated map of Argentmere: mountains and the railway to the west, hedged farmland and the river running down to the sea, the village and its church on the coast with the silver sand beach and jetty below it, Pip's house in its oaks on the high road, and beyond the chalk headland the Alder houses and a hidden harbour with two tall ships.

The people

One of them knows more than they are saying.

check the dates in the ledger against the ones in the store book

Penelope Bennett

The grandchild of the beating heart of Argentmere. Everyone knows her face, but does anybody truly know her?

Theo

A hardworking farm boy, with a charming ego larger than any yield he has ever seen.

Elliott

The gentle, handsome barkeep. Quiet, and stoic.

Calliope

The golden gazelle, trapped between her birthright and her morals.

The oak road

Press and hold to part the oaks.

Press and hold

The founding families did not settle Argentmere. They bought it, and they did not pay in money.

Now you are snooping too.

so who benefits

Where things stand

What we can tell you, and what we cannot yet.

Certain

Silver Solstice is written by Danii Lee. Pip's story, Argentmere, the whole summer, all of it hers.

Not yet

There is no release date yet. When there is one, the waitlist hears it before anywhere else does.

Danii will say more about what comes after this book when there is more to say.

A writing desk at night under an oil lamp, covered in handwritten pages and an open journal.

The author

Danii Lee

Danii has been reading this genre for as long as she has been able to carry the books, which, going by the photograph, is quite a lot of books. Silver Solstice is her first novel.

Before you ask

The questions people actually have.

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No. Danii wrote it.

Small town gothic. A summer that goes wrong slowly. Friends who are not telling each other everything, a place with a buried history, and a deadline on the shortest night of the year.

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