I’m so excited to share the cover for City of Nightmares, coming to you January 10, 2022
The cover was designed by Molly Fehr and art by Marissa Ware, and I love the shadowy city in the background and the toxic color scheme!
This book is about a coward accidentally caught up in a villainous plot in a city where people turn into their literal worst nightmare
You will like this book if you like:
—the unhinged chaos of things like Baccano and Everything Everywhere All at Once
—A Gotham-inspired city full of rampaging supervillains
—Vampires
—Black humor
Full summary:
Gotham meets Baccano in a story about a cowardly girl in a world where dreaming means waking as your worst nightmare
Ever since her sister became a man-eating spider and slaughtered her way through town, nineteen-year-old Ness has been terrified—terrified of some other Nightmare murdering her, and terrified of ending up like her sister. Because in Newham, the city that never sleeps, dreaming means waking up as your worst fear.
Whether that means becoming a Nightmare that’s monstrous only in appearance, to transforming into a twisted, unrecognizable creature that terrorizes the city, no one is safe. Ness will do anything to avoid becoming another victim, even if that means lying low among the Friends of the Restful Soul, a questionable organization that may or may not be a cult.
But being a member of maybe-cult has a price. In order to prove herself, Ness cons her way into what’s supposed to be a simple job for the organization—only for it to blow up in her face. Literally. Tangled up in the aftermath of an explosive assassination, now Ness and the only other survivor—a Nightmare boy who Ness suspects is planning to eat her—must find their way back to Newham and uncover the sinister truth behind the attack, even as the horrors of her past loom ominously near