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NEW TRILOGY
THE DARKENING GATE TRILOGY
- The Name and the Key – AVAILABLE NOW. When thirteen-year-old Lily finds her mother’s corpse in the marshes, what happens to her afterward is only worse. In every reflective surface, her mother appears, telling Lily to “open the door.” Lily doesn’t know what this means, and her sanity is tested as she tries to help her mother’s spirit. This continues into young adulthood–when Lily is eighteen, her childhood friend Andresh returns from his time abroad and shares that he has been studying dark magic. He seems to know how to save Lily from her curse, but his own secrets may destroy them both.
- The Step and the Walk – COMING OCTOBER 6, 2026. Andresh chronicles his time abroad at university in his private journal, where he shares his deepest secrets–his discovery of alchemy, his dealings with demons, his newest crush (which threatens everything), and his desire to end death once and for all. It’s easy–just surrender your desire and walk through the Gate. Immortality awaits.
- The Fear and the Flame – CURRENTLY BEING DRAFTED. Andresh is prisoner at Nigredo Gate, a former shadow of himself. Lily, armed with Andresh’s journal and some magic of her own, will stop at nothing to save him, and to end the Magnum Opus once and for all.
NOW READING
Current fiction…
From the critically acclaimed, USA TODAY bestselling, New York Times Top 100, Shirley Jackson Award–winning author of Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng and Hell to Pay, a lyrical, wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with Japanese mythology, following two people living centuries apart who discover a door between their worlds.
October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to the one place that might offer refuge—his father’s new home in Japan, a house hidden by sword ferns and wild ginger. But something is terribly wrong with the house: no animals will come near it, the bedroom window isn’t always a window, and a woman with a sword appears in the yard when night falls.
October, 1877: Sen is a young samurai in exile, hiding from the imperial soldiers in a house behind the sword ferns. A monster came home from war wearing her father’s face, but Sen would do anything to please him, even turn her sword on her own mother. She knows the soldiers will soon slaughter her whole family when she sees a terrible omen: a young foreign man who appears outside her window.
One of these people is a ghost, and one of these stories is a lie.
Something is hiding beneath the house of sword ferns, and Lee and Sen will soon wish they never unburied it.
NOW READING
Current manga…
Creator
An Ogura
Publisher
TOKYOPOP
This enemies-to-lovers fantasy romance follows a strong-willed, sword-wielding heroine who takes control of her own destiny.
Anna, daughter of the Margrave of Halmich, is tired of the expectations placed on women in court. She has no interest in marrying a nobleman because society expects it of her. Instead, she works hard on her swordsmanship and dreams of joining her father on the battlefield someday. Unfortunately, fate deals her a heavy blow: when the hostile forces of the Kingdom of Albion invade and take the Halmich heir prisoner, she is given to the enemy prince in exchange for her brother’s life.
But even in the face of these tragic circumstances, Anna still has plans of her own:
“I’ll infiltrate their ranks as a tribute, and then…I’ll defeat the man who killed my father.”
