A Change of Cover
I thought I could relax.
My next book, The Demon's Peace, releases on 27 October.
Then I showed the cover to people, and they hated it. They hought it looked like a romance novel, when it’s anything but.
Here's the old one:
I commissioned a new cover with a dark fantasy focus. Darkness, I emphasized. People must be able to look at it and immediately know it’s a dark fantasy book!
And here it is below....
What do you think?
And what's it about? I've been pitching it as Ride or Die, with demons, sword fights and necromancers. Two women, a grieving widow and a half-demon assassin, reluctantly team up to investigate a murder! It's a complete dark fantasy standalone story.
And it's only a few weeks until it comes out on 27 October! It's ready for pre-orders.
The ARC reviews are coming in nicely as well on Goodreads.
The Demon’s Peace ended up being much more emotionally layered than I expected. I went in anticipating a dark supernatural story filled with demons, ghosts, revenge, and questionable life choices, and I definitely got all of that, but the grief and trauma at the center of the story were what really stuck with me.
Okay, THIS is the kind of dark and unsettling horror I’m always looking for. Demon’s Peace pulled me in with its sinister atmosphere and slowly built-up sense of dread. There’s something especially creepy about demonic horror when you can feel that things are getting worse long before the characters fully understand what they’re dealing with.
It is so rare for us to have a story that is so dark, center so much on the female persona and characters.
I'm really excited by this book and this current series. I've got two different characters operating and two different times. The series start as two standalones that will eventually weave together as the series progresses. I'll give updates as we progress closer to release.