Oracle [Paperback]

From international bestseller Thomas Olde Heuvelt comesOracle, a supernatural thriller where an omen from our past threatens the return of ancient forces that will change the world forever.

The threshold to the apocalypse has seldom been so fun. This is Olde Heuvelts sharpest, most compelling work to date.The New York Times

On a foggy winter morning, high school kids Luca and Emma discover the impossible: the wreck of an eighteenth-century ship stranded in a flower field.

Emma enters the hatch on the deck and is never seen again. And she isnt the last to disappear. . . .

Soon a government agency begins to investigate, determined to uncover the ships secrets before a media storm erupts. They enlist Robert Grim, a retired specialist of the occult, to unravel the mystery, and he soon realizes the ship could be a harbinger of an ancient doom awakened under the sea.

In a maelstrom of international intrigue and pure terror, Grim and Luca must race against time as they come face-to-face with an open doorway to the apocalypse.

Thomas Olde Heuvelt (1983) is the international bestselling author ofHex,Echo, andOracle. The laudedHexwas published in over twenty-five countries around the world and is currently in development for TV. Olde Heuvelt, whose last name in Dutch dialect means Old Hill, was the first ever translated author to win a Hugo Award for his short fiction. He lives in The Netherlands and the south of France.

A novel that feels like a puzzle . . . Olde Heuvelt deftly juggles many characters while delivering chapters full of supernatural mayhem. This is a novel that toys with the end of humanity, but the threshold to the apocalypse has seldom been so fun. This is Olde Heuvelts sharpest, most compelling work to date. The New York Times

Cleverly takes the reader on a hard-to-predict path, which leads from haunted ship to thriller-like governmenl³Ž