Introducing a new Dark Fantasy

[J.]

Hi Goodreaders!

I would like to introduce you to my new book, The Alleys of Olde Architecture, Vol. I—A Key for Every Lock.

Here's the pitch: When her father is arrested in the middle of the night and confesses to a crime that cannot possibly be true, fifteen-year-old Alley a'Door has one day to climb to the top of the mountain, free her father, and clear his name—but how do you save a man who is dead-set on orchestrating his own execution? Over the longest day of her life, Alley and her friends will race against the clock to climb the great Stair, unraveling the mystery of her father’s cabalistic testimony and the truth behind his cryptic warning that their city—the only home she has ever known—is not what it seems to be.

This is a big, mind-bending, Grimmly-gothic fantasy, and not for the faint of heart. If you are a fantasy aficionado, this is the book you are always hoping to stumble across on the dusty back shelf at the bookstore: wildly adventurous, never shying from the occasional detour down shadowy side-streets; dark, but never desolate; with a plot that twists your brain in knots, a dash of romance, a morass of moral conundrums, an oddball cast of characters who dance around old tropes like trip-wires, and a courageous heroine that readers can stand up and cheer for.

If you are still wondering what sort of book this is... imagine Diagon Alley designed by Tim Burton, then stretch it three miles into the sky on a mountain in the middle of the sea and fill it full of creatures from Guillermo Del Toro’s cutting room floor. Drop in a teenage girl as clever as Katniss Everdeen and cutthroat as Arya Stark, send her on an adventure that feels like Fablehaven was put in a rock tumbler with His Dark Materials, populated with characters that might be equally at home in Gormenghast or The Phantom Tollbooth, cap it all off with a four-dimensional Rubix Cube Conclusion—then run the whole thing through a blender in Neil Gaiman’s secret, underground laboratory, and voila: you have The Alleys of Olde Architecture.

Well, if that doesn't convince you to give it a try, I don't know what will. :)
I do hope you will check it out! I would love to hear what you think.

The link to my Amazon page is:
https://www.amazon.com/J-Evans/e/B098...

Or you can find more info (and cool illustrations) at jeffevans.org

~J. Evans