I'm so excited - this project was a long time in development. The publisher is Dancing Cat Books and they've done a great job with it. Did I say I'm excited???? The book itself will be out next month.
Here's a short description of the story:
Secrets Destroy
You.
The Truth Sets
You Free.
What is the most
dangerous secret of all? For fifteen-year-old Dany, is it the shame that his
once-vital mother now suffers mutely from “the staring sickness?” Or is it that
Count Pol, the corrupt absolute ruler of Western Gottika, may be scouting the
city clandestinely for teenage girls to kidnap? Could the worst
secret be the mystery behind why all the kids in the Estat are only children?
Or could it be that Dany’s father possesses the secret knowledge of how to
bring clay to life, and transform it into a terrifying weapon – an all-powerful
Gol?
When Dany’s
father is framed for the murder of Gottika’s Princess Avivia, Dany is
forced to confront all of these secrets. But that won’t be enough. In order to
save his father, he’ll have to uncover his own
family’s secret, one even darker and more disturbing than the rest.
The worst lies,
after all, are the ones we tell ourselves.
Gottika reimagines a powerful
Jewish legend as a futuristic fantasy with a universal message.
