You wake upon the cold ground.
As you struggle to rise, as your breath exhales like a ghost, you know only two things: You canβt remember who you are.
And youβre being hunted.
No one sleeps in Abeo City. The lost souls gather indoors at night as Snatchers tear through the sky on black-feathered wings, stalking them. But inside the rotting walls of the Safe Houses comes a quieter, creeping danger. The people of Abeo City have forgotten their pasts, and they can trade locks of their hair to sinister women known only as the Sixers for an addictive drug. Nox will give you back a single memoryβfor a price.
Like the other lost souls, Lottie wakens in this harsh landscape and runs in terror from the Snatchers. But she soon comes to realize that she is not at all like the people of Abeo City. When she takes Nox, her memories remain a mystery, and the monsters who fill the sky at night refuse to snatch her. Trying to understand who she is, and how she ended up in such a hopeless place, Lottie bands together with other outcasts, including a brave and lovely girl named Charlie. In the darkness, and despite the threat of a monstrous end...
Love begins to grow.
But as Lottie and Charlie plot their escape from Abeo City, Lottieβs dark secrets begin to surface, along with the disturbing truth about Twixt: a truth that could cost her everything.
Twixt is a stunning, page-turning adventure, part YA paranormal romance, part thrilling horror, from award-winning YA author Sarah Diemer.
About the Author
Sarah Diemer is an award-winning author of lesbian young adult (YA), speculative fiction. She lives in a purple-doored cottage in Western New York with her beloved wife, several furred creatures and a few mischievous pixies. She enjoys covering things in glitter (and putting them on Etsy), and is a professional fairy. She is addicted to tea. Her debut novel, The Dark Wife, the YA, lesbian retelling of the Persephone myth won the 2012 Golden Crown Literary Award for Speculative Fiction, and was nominated for a Parsec Award (first two chapters of the audiobook). She writes her lesbian adult fiction under the pen name Elora Bishop, including the Sappho's Fables: Lesbian Fairy Tales series, which she co-writes with her wife, author Jennifer Diemer. She also co-writes Project Unicorn, a Lesbian YA Extravaganza with Jenn, a year long fiction project that aims to add two short stories a week, featuring lesbian heroines, to Muse Rising, making them available for free. She shares that blog with Jenn at MuseRising.com, where she talks about being gay, queer books and other sparkly things. Twitter (@SarahDiemer) and Tumblr (SarahDiemer.Tumblr.com) are some of her favorite places, and she's had her LiveJournal (Mermaiden.livejournal.com) since before it was cool to have one, and still now, after it's passΓ©. She believes, wholeheartedly, in happily ever afters.