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Better The Devil
Dark queer YA thriller from the bestselling author of All That's Left in the World
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The Reappearance of Rachel Price meets They Both Die at the End in this gripping queer thriller filled with stolen identity, true crime, and first love, from the bestselling author of All That's Left in the World. Desperate to escape conversion therapy, a queer sixteen-year-old runaway...
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The Reappearance of Rachel Price meets They Both Die at the End in this gripping queer thriller filled with stolen identity, true crime and first love, from the bestselling author of All That's Left in the World.
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The Reappearance of Rachel Price meets They Both Die at the End in this gripping queer thriller filled with stolen identity, true crime, and first love, from the bestselling author of All That's Left in the World.
Desperate to escape conversion therapy, a queer sixteen-year-old runaway steals the identity of a missing boy. But when Nathaniel Beaumont's family come to take him home, 'Nate' is trapped in a web of lies.
Then he meets Miles - the cute, clever, and true-crime-obsessed boy next door - and his cover is blown. Rather than turn him in, Miles agrees to help 'Nate' in exchange for exposing the truth about what happened to his childhood friend.
But as their investigation turns dangerous and their feelings turn real, time is running out to discover why Nathaniel Beaumont disappeared... and who might want to keep it that way.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781444973556
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 January 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hodder Children's Books
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Erik J. Brown wrote this book. Despite his inability to write a compelling author bio, Erik was selected as a 2021 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Fellow. When not writing genre-blending books for young adults, he enjoys traveling and embarking on the relentless quest of appeasing his Shiba Inu. He lives in Philadelphia with his husband. ALL THAT'S LEFT IN THE WORLD is his debut novel.
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