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The Secret Seller by Sheri Yutzy

Genre: YA Fantasy

Status: Querying

Seventeen-year-old Bell Asbury, a girl with an extraordinary but volatile gift for fusing magical elixirs, has always been told to stay away from the Night Bazaar during La Festa di San Giovanni, the weeks when the island’s magic is most potent. One night she can’t resist, and while inside the magic market overhears her sister’s fiancé making treacherous plans that involve her and her sister.

Her race to stop him uncovers a tangled web of secrets that lead to a gentleman called the Secret Seller and his plot to brainwash the entire island to obey him using a deceptive elixir. Bell alone can create an antidote, but her experiments risk the sanity of those she loves. As she searches for the cure, she finds herself falling for Rian, a mysteriously charming spy who offers to help her defeat the Secret Seller. When Rian falls back into his old deceptive ways, Bell must decide whether he’s capable of honesty or is playing a long game to control her gift.

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Genre: Science Fantasy

Status: Currently Drafting

When someone sabotages Sasha’s mechanical wings and she plummets from the floating city of Spiraldown, she needs all her skills to survive the fall and escape the monsters and savages that live in the Timberland below. She’s captured by a band of Timbers led by Forest, a fierce hunter who deeply distrusts Spirals, is determined to use Sasha’s knowledge to free the Timbers from the deadly windigos that stalk them. As Sasha learns what lies beneath Forest’s aggression she’s unable to stop her heart from opening to him. When she learns the truth of the windigos’ origin, she must choose between returning home and saving the people—and the man—she’s come to love. Can she bring Timbers and Spirals together before the windigos destroy them all?

Everything Forest knows about Spirals is shattered when Sasha drops into his hunting camp. Determined to end the windigo threat and drive out the Spirals—the ones who roused the windigos decades ago—he drags Sasha back to the Timber village. An encounter with windigos reveals she has a secret to controlling them, and he’s torn between his mission to protect his village and his growing attraction to Sasha. When the village turns against Sasha, Forest must trust her dream of unity or watch his people be devastated.

 

Seal up the Stars

Genre: Dark YA Fantasy

Status: Completed, on hold.

Fear not, those who follow His fire, for He shall light your way. The stars that have been sealed up will break free and sing.

Ravenna Lastoria has three days to escape Celidom and its leader, Vitrel. Vitrel keeps the entire city captive under the Ambitus, a vast dome. Ravenna was born with the prophesied Mark of the Tyger, and in three days Vitrel will force her to marry his cruel son and fulfill the dark side of the Prophecy. If she refuses, her younger brother, Brend, will be made to drink the sacred water of Vitrel’s dark god.

In the middle of the night, Jasper, Vitrel’s nephew, kidnaps Ravenna and drags her from Celidom. She’s devastated to leave Brend behind, but she can’t turn back once she learns Jasper’s secret.

There is another side to the Prophecy, but to fulfill it, Ravenna must choose to trust Eloi, the God who gave it.

Together they search the Sharrah Desert for an army strong enough to rescue Brend and crush Vitrel. But what Ravenna and Jasper set in motion may destroy the people they’re trying to save.

Seal up the Stars is Book I of The Great Rescue. 

 

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About Sheri

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Hi, I'm Sheri Yutzy. I love forests under the night sky, trying new foods, and drinking Irish tea. I've been to 17 countries, and once spent the night in a hotel lobby in Florence, Italy, because the entire city was fully booked for a festival.
I'm married to a musician who looks good in black, mama to three curious kids, and happy resident of a Cape Cod cottage in Ohio.
I write YA fantasy and am acquisitions editor at sparkflashfiction.com.
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Still living life, writing and editing, loving every falling leaf and crisp breeze. I started listening to Christmas music yesterday while baking pumpkin muffins because I just couldn’t resist.😅 This year I’m planning to focus on Advent and the weeks leading up to Christmas, since we’re always traveling out of state over the 25th, and it seems to slip by in the busyness.
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We finally get to see the beautiful cover for THREAD OF DREAMS, @embarnettauthor’s upcoming debut from @owlsnestpublishers! 
I can’t wait to get my hands on this dreamy book.

Here is the blurb:

Nova’s sunless planet is sustained by the magic of human dreams. Born as a moon mage, Nova’s job is to harvest dream threads from unaware humans to be used against a dark parasite eating away their land. 

Then, Nova meets Arlo, a boy who not only sees her but whose aching heart permeates his dreams. Desiring deep connection, Nova ignores the warnings of her people in order to visit the beauty of his subconscious.

But nightmares not only seep into minds and hearts, they also stalk the bioluminescent forests of Nova's world. Danger lurks in waking and sleeping, and to fail means succumbing to the parasite while cut off from Arlo forever. But if Nova can find a way to fight back, she and her people could be free to dream again.

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I’ve been reading a lot of books, but not taking I’ve been reading a lot of books, but not taking many pictures of them.🥸 
Mostly because this weather is as anti-inspirational as it gets for me.😭 this happens every year—the last few hot and muggy days of September make me want to hide inside 24/7. But it’s supposed to get cooler by the weekend, thank God.

I saw DREAMS LIE BENEATH at the bookstore and was captivated by the cover. It’s so different from A RIVER ENCHANTED that I didn’t realize it was the same Rebecca Ross. I actually thought, one of them needs to change their name.😅

This one is my next read, I think. Have you read it? What did you think?
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