Brief Description
Haven, Kansas: crows fill the skies, a female scarecrow plagues the town, and teenagers are dying left and right. Lois Duncan meets Joss Whedon in this literary slasher for the twenty-first century!
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Never reap a harvest sown with blood. 150 years ago, in Haven, Kansas, a witch was burned at the stake. This October, in Haven, Kansas, a boy plays a prank on his big sister. Suddenly, crows fill the skies, a female scarecrow plagues the town, and teenagers are dying left and right. Amidst the violence, strange things keep happening. Lora Townsend discovers a secret room behind the wall of her bedroom, in which a dark and foul Book of Shadows has been hiding for over a century. The book belonged to an ancestor who documented the spells and stories of the strange woman he loved...a woman the town later killed for practicing witchcraft.
There are whispers on the wind. The death toll is rising. And Lora and her family seem to be the center of it all. They must call upon Lora's small knowledge of magic to help them. Will they be able to take the town back from the witch, and can they manage it without losing their lives in the process?
Lois Duncan meets Joss Whedon in this literary slasher for the twenty-first century!
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"Filled with a generous mix of fantasy, intrigue, and grab-you-by-the-throat horror, Alethea Kontis's HAVEN is a powerhouse novel every fan of fine YA literature should have on the shelf." --Bram Stoker Award winner Tom Piccirilli
"Kontis writes with poise and passion, delivering chills and thrills with every page. A must read." --New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon
"HAVEN is a page-turner and its characters are drawn well--they're believable, both in their actions and in their dialogue (the 'dialogue' of young teens isn't as easily captured as some writers with less talent believe). It's an exciting tale of witchery and revenge, told with style and intelligence, that is, most importantly, a heck of a lot of fun. I simply enjoyed it from start to finish." --T. M. Wright, author of A Manhattan Ghost Story
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Alethea Kontis is a princess, fairy godmother and geek. She has dabbled in picture books, poetry, essays, online video rants, and making horror movies. Princess Alethea lives on the Space Cast of Florida wth her teddy bear, Charlie.
About the Author
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Alethea Kontis is a princess, a fairy godmother, and a geek. She's known for screwing up the alphabet, making horror movies with friends, and ranting about fairy tales on YouTube. Alethea's published works include: The Wonderland Alphabet (with Janet K. Lee), Diary of a Mad Scientist Garden Gnome (with Janet K. Lee), the AlphaOops series (with Bob Kolar), the Books of Arilland fairy tale series, and The Dark-Hunter Companion (with Sherrilyn Kenyon). Her short fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in a myriad of anthologies and magazines. Alethea's YA fairy tale novel, Enchanted, won both the Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award and Garden State Teen Book Award. Enchanted was nominated for the Audie Award in 2013 and was selected for World Book Night in 2014. Both Enchanted and its sequel, Hero, were nominated for the Andre Norton Award. Tales of Arilland, a short story collection set in the same fairy tale world, won a second Gelett Burgess Award in 2015. The second book in The Trix Adventures, Trix and the Faerie Queen, was a finalist for the Dragon Award in 2016. Princess Alethea was given the honor of speaking about fairy tales at the Library of Congress in 2013. In 2015, she gave a keynote address at the Lewis Carroll Society's Alice150 Conference in New York City, celebrating the 150th anniversary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. She also enjoys speaking at schools and festivals all over the US. (If forced to choose between all these things, she says middle schools are her favorite!) Born in Burlington, Vermont, Alethea currently lives and writes on the Space Coast of Florida. She makes the best baklava you've ever tasted and sleeps with a teddy bear named Charlie. Find out more about Princess Alethea and the magic, wonderful world in which she lives here: https: //www.patreon.com/princessalethea
Review Quotes
1. "Filled with a generous mix of fantasy, intrigue, and grab-you-by-the-throat horror, Alethea Kontis's HAVEN is a powerhouse novel every fan of fine YA literature should have on the shelf." -Bram Stoker Award winner Tom Piccirilli "Kontis writes with poise and passion, delivering chills and thrills with every page. A must read." -New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon "HAVEN is a page-turner and its characters are drawn well-they're believable, both in their actions and in their dialogue (the 'dialogue' of young teens isn't as easily captured as some writers with less talent believe). It's an exciting tale of witchery and revenge, told with style and intelligence, that is, most importantly, a heck of a lot of fun. I simply enjoyed it from start to finish." -T. M. Wright, author of A Manhattan Ghost Story
