Drowned Country, by Emily Tesh

Review copy provided by the author, who is a friend of mine after these years of sharing our awesome agent.

This is the direct sequel to Silver in the Wood, and I strongly recommend reading that before this one, because Henry Silver and Tobias Finch and all the complications of their relationship with each other and with uncanny creatures and the land start there.

The course of true love, we know, never did run smooth...especially when one of you is the Wild Man of Greenhollow. Henry and Tobias are, at the moment, more intrigued with monster hunting and saving a lost girl than they are with each other, or so they'd like to pretend. But the lost Maud Lindhurst is not what either of them expected--and neither is the shabby seaside town where they have to go to find her. Its connections with Fairyland are not any nicer than you'd expect from the previous volume's encounters with Faerie, and Henry and Tobias have to marshal their resources together--together, dammit--to get themselves and Maud back to the woods safely.

The beach is a very stressful place. Take a friend. And definitely take this non-traditional beach read--or read it at home under a good blanket. Delightful.