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Klarke Ascher has a singular goal: to become an Ascenditure, a member of the kingdom’s elite climbing team who scale the treacherous peaks of Miter’s Backbone. However, in a kingdom where women are owned by the men they are forced to marry, the Ascenditures have always been male. As the strongest climber of her generation, Klarke’s skill and strength are undeniable, and her courage and persistence prompt a civil uprising. But danger lies not only on the icy peaks of treacherous mountains, where ropes are cut and routes are compromised, but in the very halls of power, where the king is determined to see Klarke fail. With the hope of an oppressed generation on her shoulders, Klarke must dig deep within herself to discover the greatest strengths–of muscles and mind.
Sometimes climbing a mountain requires a revolution…
Coming May 2024
“The Handmaid’s Tale meets Free Solo in The Ascenditure, a heart-pounding story of one girl’s courage in the face of incredible danger, both on and off the mountains she loves to scale.”
—Ellen Parent, author of After the Fall
Coming June 2024
“Carol LaHines has invented here a compulsively readable and craftily constructed tale of murder and mayhem. Her wonderfully original unreliable narrator tells a story that will make you laugh and cry and perhaps remember Humbert Humbert in Lolita.”
— Sheila Kohler, author of award-winning novels including Cracks and Open Secrets
Ophelia, a professor of Dante, is stricken when she discovers her husband has been cheating on her with a winsome colleague, Amber Halloway. Ophelia’s figurative descent into hell leads her to obsessively track her subjects, performs surveillance from her beat-up Volvo, and surreptitiously move into the foreclosed property next door to Amber’s. Spying on the lovers, Ophelia becomes increasingly estranged from the reality of her surroundings. The Vixen Amber Halloway is a jailhouse confessional, a dark comedy, an oeuvre of women’s rage, a suspenseful revenge fantasy, and a moving portrait of one woman’s psychological breakdown.
Spense might have saved his country of Telridge and won the heart of the faerie princess. But he doesn’t feel like a hero—not while Dewy is stuck in the Winter lands, all because of a bargain she made on his behalf.
After months of fruitless research, Spense abandons the libraries of Telridge and turns to the Faerie Oracles to seek a solution.
Meanwhile, Dewy is no damsel in distress. She is on a journey of her own, diving deeper into her magic, and finding alliances in the most unexpected of places.
As they each seek the Winter Heir, they face unsettling truths about themselves, their world, and the steep costs of magic.
Coming September 2024
A mage on a quest.
A princess in exile.
And one desperate bargain.
Coming November 2024
“Written with heartfelt compassion for people facing choices no one should be made to make, this novel draws you in and leaves you a better person for knowing this story.”
―Heather Morris, #1 New York Times and international bestselling author of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ
Family secrets come to light as a young woman fights to save herself, and others, in a Nazi-run baby factory–a real-life Handmaid’s Tale–during World War II.
The Sunflower House is the story of Allina Strauss, an ordinary young woman living under extraordinary circumstances in 1930s Germany. After losing everyone she loves, she’s forced into service as a nurse at a Nazi baby factory called Hochland Home.
At Hochland Home, Allina uncovers the horrors of Heinrich Himmler’s ruthless eugenics program. When she discover the neglect occuring within the home, she’s determined not only to save herself, but also the children in her care. To do so, Allina must join forces with an unlikely ally–Karl von Strassberg, an SS officer with secrets of his own. The two must decide how much they are willing to share with each other and how much they can stand to risk as they join forces to save as many children as they can. Learn more about The Sunflower House here.
