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That Which Feeds Us by Keala Kendall

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A Sunnie Reads Select • A native Hawaiian teen travels to a luxury island resort in search of her missing twin and uncovers the dark side of paradise, in this riveting supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author Keala Kendall.

“A truly heart-pounding mystery.” —Andrew Joseph White, author of Compound Fracture

“A striking Hawaiian gothic that is as terrifying as it is emotionally resonant.” —Jihyun Yun, author of And the River Drags Her Down

Kōpaʻa Island Resort promises the ultimate escape: no cell service, no Wi-Fi, just a luxury wellness retreat built around a legendary persimmon orchard. For Lehua, it’s a nightmare — the last place her twin sister, Ohia, was seen before she went missing.

When the resort’s boat leaves without her, Lehua is stranded among the lavish guests and enigmatic staff, forced to investigate on her own. What she finds is a plantation’s bloody history hiding just beneath the resort’s polished surface.

Haunted by dreams she can’t shake and a growing warning to leave the island, Lehua has to unearth Kōpaʻa’s buried past to find out what really happened to her sister — before the island claims her too.

That Which Feeds Us is a Hawaiian gothic about the cost of paradise, and what it takes to reclaim land, story, and self from those who’d rather you forgot.

A Sunnie Reads Select • A native Hawaiian teen travels to a luxury island resort in search of her missing twin and uncovers the dark side of paradise, in this riveting supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author Keala Kendall.

“A truly heart-pounding mystery.” —Andrew Joseph White, author of Compound Fracture

“A striking Hawaiian gothic that is as terrifying as it is emotionally resonant.” —Jihyun Yun, author of And the River Drags Her Down

Kōpaʻa Island Resort promises the ultimate escape: no cell service, no Wi-Fi, just a luxury wellness retreat built around a legendary persimmon orchard. For Lehua, it’s a nightmare — the last place her twin sister, Ohia, was seen before she went missing.

When the resort’s boat leaves without her, Lehua is stranded among the lavish guests and enigmatic staff, forced to investigate on her own. What she finds is a plantation’s bloody history hiding just beneath the resort’s polished surface.

Haunted by dreams she can’t shake and a growing warning to leave the island, Lehua has to unearth Kōpaʻa’s buried past to find out what really happened to her sister — before the island claims her too.

That Which Feeds Us is a Hawaiian gothic about the cost of paradise, and what it takes to reclaim land, story, and self from those who’d rather you forgot.

  • Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (Penguin Random House)

    Title: That Which Feeds Us: A Hawaiian Gothic

    Author: Keala Kendall

    On Sale Date: May 5, 2026

    ISBN 13: 9798217117963

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $20.99

    Page Count: 352

  • Keala Kendall is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Disney’s A Twisted Tale novels How Far I’ll Go and Nobody Gets Left Behind. Hapa Native Hawaiian, she is a cofounder of Pacific Islanders in Publishing. Born in Honolulu and raised on Molokaʻi, she now lives in Los Angeles.

  • Critics are calling it gripping, resonant, striking:

    • “This astounding book is both a finger pointed directly at the rotting heart of colonial greed and a truly heart-pounding mystery.” —Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author

    • “A striking Hawaiian gothic that is as terrifying as it is emotionally resonant.” —Jihyun Yun

    • “A teen uncovers a private island’s bloodstained past while looking for her sister.” —Publishers Weekly

    • Comped to Mexican Gothic and She Is a Haunting by the publisher.

This book is for you if

  • You want a gothic thriller that ties supernatural horror to real colonial history.

  • You’re drawn to a missing-twin mystery set somewhere genuinely isolated.

  • You appreciate YA horror with a strong sense of place and cultural specificity.

  • You enjoyed Mexican Gothic or She Is a Haunting and want something in that vein.

  • You’re interested in Hawaiian history told through a genre lens rather than straight nonfiction.

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