Introducing FIENDISH!

At last (at long, long—no, seriously, I first told you about this book SO LONG AGO—long last), it gives me great personal satisfaction to present:

Fiendish is a book about being wild. And loving where you live. And sticking to your principles. And loving the people who love you back. And figuring out what makes you magic. And whenever I describe things, I always seem to think that subject and theme are the same as plot, which is NOT true. So now, here is what the story-copy says!

Clementine DeVore spent ten years trapped in a cellar, pinned down by willow roots, silenced and forgotten.

 

Now she’s out and determined to uncover who put her there and why.

 

When Clementine was a child, dangerous and inexplicable things started happening in New South Bend. The townsfolk blamed the fiendish people out in the Willows and burned their homes to the ground. But magic kept Clementine alive, walled up in the cellar for ten years, until a boy named Fisher sets her free. Back in the world, Clementine sets out to discover what happened all those years ago. But the truth gets muddled in her dangerous attraction to Fisher, the politics of New South Bend, and the Hollow, a fickle and terrifying place that seems increasingly temperamental ever since Clementine reemerged.

There’s a pre-order link up now on Amazon and Fiendish is slated to hit shelves on June 26th, 2014!*

Oh, it is a relief to finally be able to talk about this book—I had so much fun writing it, and there are a lot of monsters in it!

(You all know how much I love monsters …)

*So put it on your calendars, but not in ink, because I’m pretty sure that ever pub date I’ve ever-ever had has changed at some point.