When Greta Randall stumbles across a rare volume of Victorian poetry in a local antique market, she could never have imagined that it would take her on a journey through time. The secrets she discovers along the way may shed light on the book’s mysterious young author, Louisa Duberger, but at what peril? Award-winning writer Suzanne Craig-Whytock is the author of four previous novels, Smile, The Dome, The Seventh Devil, and The Devil You Know, and two short story collections, Feasting Upon The Bones and At The End Of It All, as well as the humour collection What Any Normal Person Would Do. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous literary journals, and she regularly publishes essays focused on life’s absurdities under the pen name 'Mydangblog.' She is also the Editor of DarkWinter Literary Magazine, an online journal which publishes short stories and poetry from both emerging and established writers, as well as the founder of DarkWinter Press and Baxter House Editions. Charybdis is her fifth novel. Praise for Charybdis: “Monsters come in many forms—from mythological jealousy to Brontean obsessive misfires of the mind. In Suzanne Craig-Whytock’s beautifully crafted literary mystery, the past and present are swept up in a whirlpool of their own making as a modern-day English literature student attempts to unravel the dark secrets and desires of an obscure Victorian Canadian poet.” Rod Carley, author of RUFF. Twice long-listed for the Leacock Medal for Humour “In the pages of Charybdis lies the unfurling of a mystery that begins in a slim volume of poetry bound in red leather, sweeps across the boundaries of time, and leads you into the most shadowed and unexpected corners of Champs Blancs, a grand estate that harbours, within its walls, the echoes of love, obsession, terror, and so much more.” Susan Richardson, author of Tiger Lily and Things My Mother Left Behind “Craig-Whytock’s masterful storytelling—a combination of prose, poetry and diary entries—twists and turns leaving the reader gasping, crying and desperately wanting to know what’s going to happen next.” Emily De Angelis, author of The Stones of Burren Bay (Latitude 46 Publishing 2024) "Suzanne Craig-Whytock’s Charybdis is a wonderful, powerful mystery, surely a parallel structure of two mysteries, one from the Victorian period and one set in the present day. With very strong writing, both deeply felt and entertaining. But beware, there are bloody and violent twists and turns as the two mysteries tensely overlap inside of, and outside of, historical time. And yet, the reader is left with a central mystery suggested by the who is the true Charybdis, the true monster of Craig-Whytock’s book? Remember that Charybdis was at first a beautiful girl, whom Zeus turned into a monstrous whirlpool for stealing cattle. Charybdis was a terrible danger to those, like Odysseus, who traveled by sea in the Strait of Messina. Perhaps the writer herself is the Charybdis, lurking behind, and now the reader reading, is a Charybdis, too, one with complicity in these mysteries that are, at least still partially, unresolved." Alan Bern, co-publisher of Lines & Faces and author of IN THE PACE OF THE PATH "Suzanne Craig-Whytock’s words move seamlessly thr