BY THE PIONEERING QUEEN OF ARABIC GOTHIC HORROR, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LASHIN SERIES, AND WINNER OF THE IREAD BESTSELLING AUTHOR AWARD. In a remote, forgotten stretch of the southern desert, the boundary between humanity and raw nature completely dissolves. As a mysterious, devastating epidemic sweeps through the region, a group of troubled strangers finds themselves trapped in a terrifying struggle against an unsparing environment, their fractured pasts, and their own buried secrets. Far beyond a traditional horror story, Sherine Hanaei delivers a deeply atmospheric, philosophical exploration of loss, alienation, and moral decay. The Devouring fearlessly asks what remains of our shared humanity when nature revolts, all social masks crumble, and predation becomes the sole language of survival.In The Gnawing, Sherine Hanaei delivers a viscerally chilling, philosophically profound psychological horror novel. Written in razor-sharp, atmospheric prose, it asks a devastating question: what remains of our humanity when predation becomes the only language of survival?