Not Good For Maidens

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Ages 14+

Salems Lot meets The Darkest Part of the Forest in this horror-fantasy retelling of Christina Rossettis Goblin Market.

Theyll lure you in with fruit and gems and liquor and dancing, merriment to remember for the rest of your life. But thats an illusion. The market is death itself.

Beneath the streets of York, the goblin market calls to the Wickett women the family of witches that tends to its victims. For generations, they have defended the old cobblestone streets with their magic. Knowing the dangers, they never entered the market until May Wickett fell for a goblin girl, accepted her invitation, and became inextricably tied to the world her family tried to protect her from. The market learned her name, and even when she and her sister left York for Boston to escape it, the goblins remembered.

Seventeen years later, Lou, Mays niece, knows nothing of her magical lineage or the twisted streets, sweet fruits, and incredible jewels of the goblin market. But just like her aunt, the market calls to her, an echo of a curse that wont release its hold on her family. And when her youngest aunt, Neela, is kidnapped by goblins, Lou discovers just how real and dangerous the market is.

To save her, both May and Lou will have to confront their familys past and what happened all those years ago. But everything from the food and wares, to the goblins themselves is a haunting temptation for any human who manages to find their way in. And if Lou isnt careful, she could end up losing herself to the market, too.

'Not Good for Maidens is a hauntingly enticing and bloody spectacle of a book. Its the type of story that sits heavy on your bones after reading and haunts your nightmares.' Nerd Daily

'A violent and voluptuous adventure.' Kirkus

'An exciting new take on Christina Rosettis Goblin Market, Not Good For Maidens has me VERY excited.' The AU Review

Author Bio

Tori Bovalino is the author of The Devil Makes Three and Not Good for Maidens, and edited the Indie-bestselling anthology, The Gathering Dark. She is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and now lives in the UK with her partner and their very loud cat. Tori loves scary stories, obscure academic book facts, and impractical, oversized sweaters.