Which also meant he must have figured out Adele’s connection to León. Or perhaps it was the anxious words Adele had said to me on the Moonwalk: “He knows about the grimoire.”Ĭallisto Salazar knows about our book of shadows. It had been at least a century since I’d needed to heal so completely, and despite the pain, or perhaps because of the pain, it was reinvigorating. I set a glass of water on the floor next to her, offering none to Carina or Josif, and stretched out my arm, flexing and straightening my wrist, the newly formed skin taut. Dark circles had formed beneath her anemic eyelids, and her clothes were charred in spots, muddy in others, but the base notes of jasmine from her Dior eau de parfum still drenched her collar. The girl lay unconscious against the attic wall in Raúl’s chains, her wet auburn hair even more vibrant now against her pallid skin. The metallic aftertaste of her blood still tugged at my senses. For more on Arden, head over to her official website, Instagram and Twitter.

You can find out more about the CASQUTTE GIRLS saga and pre-order THE GATES OF GUINÉE at Amazon’s series page. Teetering on the razor’s edge between everything she desires and utter madness, only her heart and her magic can lead Adele back home…if only Callisto Salazar hadn’t stolen her Fire, and the most secretive one of them all hadn’t stolen her heart.” In a whirl of lucid dreams, fetish markets, and ancestral reunions, only those who bare their souls will survive this ghostly hunt, or else they’ll join the land of the dead permanently. “For those who choose to pass through the Gates of Guinée, the rules of the Afterworld are simple: Don’t eat the food. New York transplant and first responder Isaac Thompson will stop at nothing to protect Adele, even if he has to give in to his Spektral magic to unearth the truth about Nicco’s monstrous past. But in order to restore his family’s legacy, he’ll have to succumb to his darkest desires. For the first time in 400 years, Niccolò Medici feels on the precipice of finding his stolen grimoire.

Adele has one chance to save everyone she loves, but it will mean breaking away from her coven and trusting a vampire. The synopsis for GATES: “As the Ghost Drinkers seep into the crevices of the Crescent City, leeching the French Quarter of magic, the local witches are consumed with a new fight for survival.

The saga takes place in a storm-ravaged Big Easy and pits a group of fledgling witches, including teenage heroine Adele Le Moyne, against sinister vampires. THE GATES OF GUINÉE, the fourth in a series by Alys Arden that began with THE CASQUETTE GIRLS, is set for release as a paperback and Kindle e-book Janufrom Skyscape (with the cover art seen below by Hugo Award-winner Galen Dara). The New Orleans-born author has won a legion of readers with her supernatural YA novels set in her hometown, and we’ve got the first look at the next one.

The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden