In a drowned city where hope kills and dreams are deadly, one wrong thought can end your life.
Haunted 17-year-old outcast Cole is desperate to suppress her macabre obsession with the Mara-taken before she becomes one. When a stranger with unsettling gold eyes offers a chance to escape her rule-bound existence, it--and he--prove a dangerous distraction.
The body count is on the rise and the ghost who won't leave her side isn't the only one with something to hide.
Join Cole on a mission of discovery and revenge from the perilous heights of the Towers of Refuge to the glittering club lurking below the floodwaters. With the dead piling up at every turn, can she untangle the lies and stop the dying before the nightmares eat her alive?
A not-quite-alive girl and her not-quite-dead ghost discover trusted authorities lie, allies have their own agendas and even the monsters wear masks in a journey of betrayal, revenge, and finding the power to fight back. YA dark fantasy with echoes of Daughter of the Burning City, This Savage Song, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Masque of the Red Death for fans of Brenna Yovanoff, Laini Taylor, and Melissa Marr. In a drowned city where hope kills and dreams are deadly, one wrong thought can end your life.
Haunted 17-year-old outcast Cole is desperate to suppress her macabre obsession with the Mara-taken before she becomes one. When a stranger with unsettling gold eyes offers a chance to escape her rule-bound existence, it--and he--prove a dangerous distraction.
The body count is on the rise and the ghost who won't leave her side isn't the only one with something to hide.
Join Cole on a mission of discovery and revenge from the perilous heights of the Towers of Refuge to the glittering club lurking below the floodwaters.
With the dead piling up at every turn, can she untangle the lies and stop the dying before the nightmares eat her alive?
A not-quite-alive girl and her not-quite-dead ghost discover trusted authorities lie, allies have their own agendas and even the monsters wear masks in a journey of betrayal, revenge, and finding the power to fight back.
YA Urban Fantasy with echoes of Daughter of the Burning City, This Savage Song, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Masque of the Red Death for fans of Brenna Yovanoff, Laini Taylor, and Melissa Marr.
Read this multi-awarded atmospheric and twisty paranormal gothic horror-meets-dystopian climate apocalypse series starter by one of the "Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction" and "Best New Weird Horror" authors writing today!
K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) is an award-winning Canadian speculative fiction author whose quietly subversive works explore the tangled webs of society, environment, and identity through intricate, dreamlike tales of monsters and magic. Best known for gothic-dystopian YA+ Dark Fantasy series Threads of Dreams, a genrepunk saga of a haunted misfit storming monster-infested, post-eco-apocalypse Vancouver, her work has also appeared in Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, Brave New Weird: Best New Weird Horror, Lightspeed Magazine, Strange Horizons, The NoSleep Podcast, Fantasy Magazine, and Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, among others. She also teaches with the Creative Writing for Children Society and leads the Children's Writers & Illustrators of British Columbia Society from her home in the Comox Valley, BC. Find her at kawiggins.com.
