One of Literary Hub's Favorite Books of the Year 'Seethingly assured...like all the best horror, Follow Me to Ground] is an impressive balancing act between judicious withholding and unnerving reveals.' --The Guardian A 'legitimately frightening' (The New York Times Book Review) debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal.'You've never encountered a father-daughter story like Rainsford's slim debut' (Entertainment Weekly). Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a village where they help sick locals--or 'Cures'--by cracking open their damaged bodies or temporarily burying them in the reviving, dangerous Ground nearby. Ada, a being both more and less than human, is mostly uninterested in the Cures, until she meets a man named Samson--and they quickly strike up an affair. Soon, Ada is torn between her old way of life and new possibilities with her lover, and eventually she