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  • Published: 7 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9780593806579
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $39.99

The House of Quiet




A dark fantasy about a girl who will risk everything—posing as a maid, confronting powerful enemies, and unraveling deadly secrets—all to save her missing sister from the enigmatic House of Quiet.

“A brilliant, imaginative fantasy.” —Allison Saft, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wings of Starlight

"A chilling, dystopic world enclosed in a locked-room mystery." —Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hide comes a dark fantasy about a girl who will risk everything—posing as a maid, confronting powerful enemies, and unraveling deadly secrets—all to save her missing sister from the enigmatic House of Quiet.

“A brilliant, imaginative fantasy.” —Allison Saft, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wings of Starlight

"A chilling, dystopic world enclosed in a locked-room mystery." —Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights

To save her sister, she must enter the House.

In the middle of a deadly bog sits the House of Quiet. It’s a place for children whose Procedure triggered powers too terrible to be lived with—their last hope for treatment. No one knows how they’re healed or where they go afterward.

Birdie has begged, bargained, and blackmailed her way inside as a maid, determined to find her missing sister, Magpie. But what she discovers is more mysteries. Instead of the destitute children who undergo the Procedure in hopes of social advancement, the house brims with aristocratic teens wielding strange powers they never should have been burdened with.

Though Birdie wants to ignore them, she can’t help being drawn to stoic and silent Forest, charmed by clever River, and concerned for the youngest residents. And with fellow maid Minnow keeping tabs on everything Birdie does, danger is everywhere.

In her desperate search for Magpie, Birdie unearths terrifying threats and devastating truths, forcing her to confront just how much she’s willing to sacrifice to save her own sister. Because in the House of Quiet, if you find what’s lurking beneath . . . you lose everything.

Unravel the mystery. Ignite the rebellion.

  • Published: 7 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9780593806579
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $39.99

About the author

Kiersten White

Kiersten White is the #1 New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning, and critically acclaimed author of dozens of books for readers of all ages, including The House of Quiet, the And I Darken trilogy, Star Wars: Padawan, Lucy Undying, and The Fox and the Devil, as well as Hide and Mister Magic and their graphic novel adaptations. She lives in San Diego with her family and their surly tortoise, Kimberly.
 
kierstenwhite.com | Instagram: @authorkierstenwhite

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Praise for The House of Quiet

"Mysteries swirl like mist upon the bog, slyly at first until you find yourself consumed. "— Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Thirteenth Child

"Delightfully disturbing, dreamy, and utterly compelling.” —Ryan La Sala, award-wining author of The Honeys

“An unputdownable mystery, that shocks, chills and enthrals. Enter The House of Quiet only if you dare!” — C.S. Pacat, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Rise

"The House of Quiet is as much a labyrinth as the foreboding building the book explores -- I could not put it down." —Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of Compound Fracture

"Mysteries swirl like mist upon the bog, slyly at first until you find yourself consumed. "— Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Thirteenth Child

"Delightfully disturbing, dreamy, and utterly compelling.” —Ryan La Sala, award-wining author of The Honeys

“An unputdownable mystery, that shocks, chills and enthrals. Enter The House of Quiet only if you dare!” — C.S. Pacat, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Rise

"The House of Quiet is as much a labyrinth as the foreboding building the book explores -- I could not put it down." —Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of Compound Fracture