[PREORDER] Shark Heart: A Love Story
This is a preorder book, available to order from 25 June to 10 July. Estimated arrival is 2–4 weeks after the preorder period ends (it may arrive sooner!).
When the one you love begins to change, you must decide what parts of them and yourself you’ll hold on to.
In Shark Heart, Emily Habeck tells the tender, heartbreaking story of Lewis and Wren, newlyweds facing an unimaginable change: Lewis’s body is slowly transforming into that of a great white shark. As they navigate the surreal and devastating effects of his metamorphosis, they must also reckon with their fears, their love, and what it means to truly see someone, even as they slip beyond the life you thought you’d share.
Part myth, part modern fable, this novel explores devotion, grief, and the strange grace that blooms when we let go of certainty. Habeck’s prose is lyrical and unflinchingly honest as it weaves between humor, heartbreak, and the raw beauty of loving someone you can’t keep.
📗 In The Mood For…
Feeling Seen
A story that acknowledges the quiet pain of losing someone you adore.
✅ Centers a deeply intimate, emotionally raw relationship
✅ Gives language to grief that is strange, messy, and full of wonder
Challenging My Views
Takes a familiar story of loss and renders it through the fantastical.
✅ Uses surreal transformation as a lens for questions about mortality and commitment
✅ Pushes readers to reconsider the nature of change, love, and what we can survive
📘 Stories About…
Love in All Its Forms
How do you hold onto someone who is becoming something you cannot follow?
✅ Explores devotion as both enduring and imperfect
✅ Honors the complicated, transformative bonds we share with those we love
The Unknown or Unseen
Lewis’s metamorphosis reveals hidden fears and fragile hopes.
✅ Blends realism and fantasy to explore identity, loss, and resilience
✅ Suggests that what we cannot fully understand may also hold a kind of beauty