J. St Augustine 📚🖊️

3x3 mood board, from top left: image of two women braiding each other’s hair while silhouetted against a window; image of a lamb nuzzling another lamb’s ear; image of a white columned mansion; image of white dresses hanging on a dead tree; image of a woman leaning back against a marble altar; image of three figures in white dresses running through a dark forest; image of a bloody hand gripping a sink; image of two masculine figures wearing suits with their heads/faces covered by red silk opening a door to a red-lighted room; image of a young woman laying facedown on a forest floor while shadowy arms reach for her

THE HANDMAID’S TALE x MIDSOMMAR

Under a theocracy preaching human sacrifice as the path to salvation, seven young women determine how much they’re willing to sacrifice to save their own lives when they’re selected as the year’s “Offerings.”

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Gothic manor, watching eye, Cornish coast, ornate key, handwritten letter, locked door in 6-panel collage

WHERE ECHOES WAIT #W #A #H #LF

Sarah Waters meets Shirley Jackson.

For readers of:
📖 MEXICAN GOTHIC
📖 THE LITTLE STRANGER
📖 REBECCA
📖 PIRANESI

A woman falls in love with a house. She cannot quite tell whether the feeling is mutual.

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A collage of book-related images including a woman in the water, the Irish coast, a cottage, and a couple embracing.

LEAP YEAR, but haunted

Rosie's travel to-do list:

🇮🇪 Return to Ireland
💀 Solve a murder
💚 Try not to fall for the mysterious local man
🧟‍♀️ Escape the monstrous presence stalking her

📚 Querying now - #agents, please reach out if you'd like to see it! 📚

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NOW QUERYING

THE NIGHTMARE COLLECTOR

💀 Teen monster horror
💀 Fast-paced, action-filled
💀 Small town mystery
💀 My job might be evil
💀 Bi-romantic asexual protagonist

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Oulander x Ring Shout x Fleabag

In WWII London, at Guy’s Hospital, an Irish nurse works, tending to victims of the Blitz, turning cots, and executing demons by her other name, Saint Brigid of Kildare.

KILDARE
🍀 Irish Female protagonist
🍀 1940s London
🍀 Questionable saints

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