ROOTBOUND, YA Fantasy/Horror
on subROOTBOUND is an upper YA fantasy novel with strong horror elements that will appeal to fans of Uprooted by Naomi Novik and The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones. Eighteen-year-old apothecary Althea joins a crew cutting paths through a deadly forest, where she hopes to find her missing mother in an isolated town. Instead, she finds camaraderie with the crew—and the forest that wants to kill them.
CRESCENDO, Adult Horror/Romance
revisingCRESCENDO is an contemporary horror novel that adds the monstrous, mountainous stylings of The Old Gods of Appalachia podcast to the murder-mystery horror of Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo. Rory Bowman wants college to be over, because she’s sick of playing second baton to local prodigy Link Withers. When band members start getting murdered, however, the two may have to work together to expose old mysteries haunting Fairside, North Carolina.
THE LONE LAW, Adult Fantasy/Western
back-burnerTHE LONE LAW is an adult fantasy novel with classic western vibes that will appeal to fans of Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey and Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn books. Marley Roose wants the man who murdered her family to pay. However, that man is the most powerful landowner in Hiherella and is in-league with the church she adores, making things complicated. Marley’s religion outlaws magic, but she’s willing to bend the rules if it'll help her take him down and build a better future for her country.
She didn't consider her heretical husband wants to break the rules, not bend them. Some systems are made to be broken.