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NIGHT IS ON HER HAIR (YA Gothic Romantasy with CottageCore elements) – Completed manuscript.
Alexandria Bay, NY, 1911.
In a glittering island manor, 17-year-old Estella Ripley has been exchanging little clues with her grandad for years, hiding clovers in books and under teacups, and writing riddles that lead to secret hideaways. They’ve created their own snow globe-safe world – a world that doesn’t judge them for the secrets they keep. What would society think of a girl who can breathe underwater and whose fingers turn as green as the clovers Grandad hides for her?
So when Grandad is inexplicably pulled into the earth by a vindictive cherry laurel tree, Estella knows it’s a story no one will believe, especially not her new doctor husband. Before he admits her as a subject for experiments, Estella escapes and through a secret passage she discovers deep underneath the island.
It stretches across the bay to an enchanted glen where sparkling water heals all wounds, plants have personalities, and a group of music-loving Irish folk hide from normal society. But because of an old Irish curse, the glen’s inhabitants transform at night into hideous, plant-like monsters. Worse yet is that Estella’s presence seems to turn their personalities violent, threatening the safety of the glittering glen. Even Ayron Black, the glen’s handsome and resourceful amateur botanist, cannot unearth a cure. Torn between her sweet memories of Grandad and the building suspicion that he caused the horrid curse, Estella is forced to reconcile the man she thought she knew with someone who spun a web of lies around her. Now, Estella must examine her past more deeply before it claims her future.
Wild and lush, NIGHT IS ON HER HAIR is a spellbinding Gothic Romantasy that will keep you reading well into the night. Just keep the doors locked.
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