Vampires, Dropouts, and the Things We Inherit
One of these books has vampires. The other has a seventeen-year-old high-school dropout trying to figure out what he's supposed to do with the rest of his life. We published both. There's a reason. The Ingénue takes place in a Cincinnati where Sorcha Mackenzie's disappearance on Halloween night drags mortals into the cold, ash-gray machinery of the undead. Fortunate Son takes place in a sweltering 1992 small-town America where Moe Richards is drowning in anxiety and trying to figure out what family actually means when the bloodline is broken. On the surface, they share nothing. One is a dark supernatural novel about things that bite; the other is a raw, grounded coming-of-age story about a kid standing on the edge of a trackless summer. Except both are interested in what happens when people inherit circumstances they didn't choose: family, history, expectations, damage. The things handed to us before we ever get a say in what we're carrying. One book has vampires....