New Releases by Jessica Verday

The sequel to Of Monsters and Madness from a New York Times best-selling author. Edgar Allan Poe and Annabel Lee return for more Gothic thrills in this mashup drawing on Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray. "Madness most magnificent!" --The El Paso Times on Of Monsters and Madness In mourning after the sudden death of her grandfather, Annabel Lee is devastated when her beau, Allan Poe, commits himself to an insane asylum to keep his second personality--callous serial killer Edgar--at bay. In need of distraction, she eagerly accepts her father''s invitation to help with his medical experiments. But his scientific study is rapidly morphing into morbid obsession. And Annabel''s own attempts to cure Allan are becoming morally questionable. When Annabel begins receiving mysterious notes and then her father is kidnapped, she''s left with little choice. She needs Edgar''s help. The pair tracks the letters back to the dashing and quite dangerous Dorian Gray, who seems to know all about Annabel''s past. The secrets he reveals force her to make a decision that may make her the most monstrous of all. This follow-up to Of Monsters and Madness deftly combines horror themes drawn from Robert Louis Stevenson''s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Oscar Wilde''s The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Mary Shelley''s Frankenstein to create a chilling Gothic thriller for a new era. Praise for Of Monsters and Madness: "This book was romantic, scary, and deliciously maddening!" --Shelly Crane, New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of Significance and Wide Awake "Madness most magnificent!" --The El Paso Times "Verday offers a haunting portrait of a lonely, intelligent girl, while serving up gore and abundant references to classic Gothic horror stories. A monstrous mashup . . . inventive and engaging."--Kirkus Reviews "Verday''s novel is a quick read that hooks readers into the mysterious and gothic atmosphere of Annabel''s Philadelphia. The plot is thrilling. . . . Annabel is a strong character."--School Library Journal "[A] pleasing gothic romance and suspenseful mystery." --VOYA

A romantic, historical retelling of classic Gothic horror featuring Edgar Allan Poe and his character Annabel Lee, from a New York Times best-selling author. Annabel Lee is summoned from Siam to live with her father in 1820''s Philadelphia shortly after her mother''s death, but an unconventional upbringing makes her repugnant to her angry, secretive father. Annabel becomes infatuated with her father''s assistant Allan, who dabbles in writing when he''s not helping with medical advancements. But in darker hours, when she''s not to be roaming the house, she encounters the devilish assistant Edgar, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Allan, and who others insist doesn''t exist. A rash of murders across Philadelphia, coupled with her father''s strange behavior, leads Annabel to satisfy her curiosity and uncover a terrible truth: Edgar and Allan are two halves of the same person - and they are about to make the crimes detailed in Allan''s stories come to life. Unless Annabel stops them.

Cyn’s blackouts have deadly consequences in this sexy, suspenseful companion novel to the New York Times bestselling Hollow series. Cyn Hargrave is on the run, but she can’t escape her dark past. The brother of her murdered boyfriend is convinced she’s the killer—and now he’s tracked her down. Cyn has only one person to turn to, and she can’t stand him. Avian knows the evil that lives inside of Cyn, but he’s still compelled to help her. As the thirteenth Revenant, he’s scorned by Heaven and unwanted by Hell, so he understands what it’s like to be a part of two worlds and not fit into either. Together they will need to deal with the danger that follows her—and the danger inside of her—before one of them destroys her.

Depois de enfrentar a dor de perder sua melhor amiga afogada em um acidente misterioso e de se apaixonar por um rapaz morto em Sombras e Essências, os dois primeiros volumes da Trilogia das Sombras, Abbey não tem mais dúvidas de que Caspian é seu destino e de que a ligação entre eles transcende a morte. O que ela finalmente descobrirá em Enigmas, o emocionante desfecho da série assinada por Jessica Verday, é a verdade sobre a sombria profecia que a liga à Caspian e os dois à pacata cidade de Sleepy Hollow, o que a obrigará a fazer escolhas muito difíceis.

Segundo volume da Trilogia das Sombras, Essências vai deliciar os fãs de sagas de sucesso com amores impossíveis e seres do além. Determinada a esquecer Caspian, o menino misterioso por quem se apaixonou – e que está morto –, Abbey tenta se concentrar nos deveres de casa atrasados, na criação de seus perfumes e em sua amizade com Ben. Mas Caspian não tem outra escolha a não ser voltar para sua amada, pois eles estão ligados não só um ao outro, mas também à cidade de Sleepy Hollow e a uma famosa lenda que selou suas sinas, e cujos significados obscuros eles estão apenas começando a entender.

In the long-awaited conclusion to the bestselling saga of Abbey and Caspian, readers finally learn the truth about Kristen''s death, the dark destiny that links Abbey to Caspian and ties them both to the town of Sleepy Hollow, and the hard choices Abbey must make.

These bestselling series may have ended, but it’s never too late to start reading them! This e-sampler features excerpts from the first books in each series. Private by Kate Brian The Hollow by Jessica Verday The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

An impossible truth. An impossible love. After a summer spent reclaiming her sanity and trying to forget the boy she fell in love with--the boy who must not exist, cannot exist, because she knows that he is dead--Abbey returns to Sleepy Hollow, ready to leave the ghosts of her past behind. She throws herself into her schoolwork, her perfume-making, and her friendship with Ben, her cute and funny lab partner, who just might be her ticket to getting over Caspian once and for all. But Abbey can never get over Caspian, and Caspian has no choice but to return to her side, for Caspian is a Shade, and Abbey is his destiny. They are tied not only to each other, but also to the town of Sleepy Hollow, and to the famous legend that binds their fates--a legend whose dark truths they are only beginning to guess.... “Spectacular! The Hollow keeps you reading from beginning to end without coming up for air.” --L.J. Smith, bestselling author of The Vampire Diaries and Night World

Growing up in the town of Sleepy Hollow, the mystery and intrigue over Washington Irving''s classic legend are all part of daily life for sixteen-year-old Abbey. But when her best friend, Kristen, vanishes at the bridge near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Abbey''s world is suddenly turned upside down. While everyone is all too quick to accept that Kristen is dead, Abbey refuses to believe that she is really gone. And when Abbey meets the gorgeous, but mysterious, Caspian at Kristen''s memorial she starts to feel like she has something to hold on to for the first time since Kristen''s disappearance. But when Abbey finds a diary hidden in Kristen''s bedroom, she begins to question everything she thought she knew about her best friend. How could Kristen have kept silent about so much? And could this secret have led to her disappearance or even her death? Hurt and angry at Kristen''s betrayal, Abbey turns to Caspian for support… and uncovers a frightening truth about him that threatens both their emerging love and her sanity…