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Night’s Edge
Adult Literary Horror, now available from Tor Nightfire/Macmillan
A sun-drenched novel about the darkest secrets we hide and how monstrous we can be to those we love most.
Having a mom like Izzy meant Mia had to grow up fast. No extracurricular activities, no inviting friends over, and definitely no dating. The most important rule: tell no one of Izzy’s hunger – the one only blood can satisfy.
But Mia is in her twenties now, and she longs for a life of her own. One where she doesn’t have to worry about anyone discovering their terrible secret, or breathing down her neck. When Mia meets rebellious musician Jade she dares to hope she’s found a way to leave her home – and her mom – behind. It just might be Mia’s only chance of getting out alive.
PRAISE FOR NIGHT’S EDGE:
“This vampire story from Kerin will sink its teeth into readers’ hearts.” —Library Journal (Starred Review)
“The perpetual dread and clear-eyed insight of Night’s Edge will be haunting readers for years to come.” —BookPage (Starred Review)
“Vampires are given a brutal yet refreshing update in this addictive outing… Kerin’s prose is razor-sharp, and the fraught mother-daughter relationship at the heart of the novel is devastatingly rendered.” —Publishers Weekly
“Some novels just tear you apart. They get into your veins, into your soul, into your mind and wreck you. Night’s Edge by Liz Kerin is a book like that.” —SFF World
"A morally gray and timely story that is bursting with Sookie Stackhouse vibes but will also appeal to fans of Cartriona Ward and Zoje Stage." —Booklist
"Kerin does not permit the obvious horror tropes to eclipse the themes of the novel she's writing. It's a terrific work." — Nightmare Magazine
“This one’s a killer.” —Erika T. Wurth, author of White Horse
“Fascinating. A powerful, thoughtful, and all-too-real take on vampires that will ring true for abuse survivors and have everyone else jumping at shadows.” ―Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of The Violence
"A 'vampire next door' story that feels achingly human, set in a world both strangely alien and frighteningly familiar. So realistic you’ll swear it happened to someone you know.” —Scott Thomas, author of Kill Creek
First Light
The sequel to Night’s Edge, coming 4/23/24 from Tor Nightfire/Macmillan
First Light, the riveting sequel to Liz Kerin’s Night's Edge, is about seizing a brighter future by dancing with the shadows of our past.
“I came all this way to watch you burn.”
It’s been nine months since the catastrophe in Tucson sent Mia fleeing from her home. But she’s not running away from the darkness—she’s running toward it, obsessively pursuing the man who gave her mother a thirst for blood and destroyed their lives. But when Mia finds the monsters she’s been hunting and infiltrates a secret network of fugitives, she discovers she might have been their prey all along. To escape their clutches, she’ll have to reckon with her mother’s harrowing past and confront a painful truth: that they might be more alike than she ever imagined.
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The Phantom Forest
YA Fantasy (2019, Inkshares)
“Surprisingly, this is the author’s first novel and on this evidence I’d say dark fiction has a new rising star.” ―British Fantasy Society
Every tree in the sacred Forest of Laida houses a soul. And each of those souls will return to the mortal world for many future lives. But not all of them deserve to.
Seycia’s father told her this story as a child―a story of the holiest place in the Underworld, the Forest of Laida, where all souls go to rest before embarking on a new life. But Seycia’s father is dead now, and his killer has put a target on her back.
After being chosen for her village’s human sacrifice ritual, Seycia is transported to the Underworld and must join forces with Haben, the demon to whom she was sacrificed. Together, they journey to the forest in the Underworld where all souls grow in a quest to destroy the tree of the man who killed her.
"Instantly gripping with poetic prose that sets a truly haunting mood.” ―Kaleena, Reader Voracious
“Harrowing and action-packed–this story races through a rich, detailed world that is never what you expect it to be.” ― Bridget Tyler, author of The Pioneer