Of Monsters and Madness by Jessica Verday

Spectacular! The Hollow keeps you reading from beginning to end without coming up for air.

How could Kristen have kept silent about so much? And could this secret have led to her death? As Abbey struggles to understand Kristen’s betrayal, she uncovers a frightening truth that nearly unravels her one that will challenge her emerging love for Caspian, as well as her own sanity. In the first installment of a planned series, Verday (the Hollow. Just when Abbey starts to feel that she might survive all this, she learns a secret that makes her question everything she thought she knew about her best friend. Egmont USA, 17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-60684-463-2. Caspian clearly has secrets of his own, but he’s the only person who makes Abbey feel normal again…īut also special. Then she meets Caspian, the gorgeous and mysterious boy who shows up out of nowhere at Kristen’s funeral, and keeps reappearing in Abbey’s life. Abbey goes through the motions of mourning her best friend, but privately, she refuses to believe that Kristen is really gone. Of monsters and madness / by Jessica Verday. In the first installment of a planned series, Verday (the Hollow trilogy) borrows from Gothic horror to. (Sept.When Abbey’s best friend, Kristen, vanishes at the bridge near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, everyone else is all too quick to accept that Kristen is dead and rumors fly that her death was no accident. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Verday, Jessica. Egmont USA, 17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-60684-463-2. Agent: Mollie Glick, Foundry Literary + Media. Instead of fully developing supporting characters, several remain flat through her eyes, and as the novel comes to a close Verday abruptly leaps a few weeks into the future to hastily set up the next book.

Like her late mother, Annabel is an adept healer, but as narrator she is so mired in her romantic preoccupations and her father’s disapproval of her medical aspirations that some facets of the story are lacking.

But as Poe’s scribblings become darker, and a spate of murders embroils Philadelphia, Annabel must unravel the nightmarish secrets inside her own home. Herself in the favor of one of his assistants, Allan Poe. In the first installment of a planned series, Verday (the Hollow trilogy) borrows from Gothic horror to reimagine Poe’s most enduring works as a string of strange, horrific events in 1826 Philadelphia,Ģ0 years before the publication of “The Raven,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and “Annabel Lee.” Upon her arrival in Philadelphia to live with her father, 17-year-old Annabel Lenore Lee finds 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.

Of Monsters and Madness by Jessica Verday