When a series of eerily haunting dreams drives amnesiac dreamweaver Cole back into battle too soon, the power she's only just learned to wield fails to show up for the fight. Dreamwalker and childhood friend Ash claims a trip to her long-forgotten homeland in the mountains will help her reclaim her missing magic—and hard-won sense of purpose. Too bad it can only be reached by a perilous voyage across monster-infested waters.
The last thing Cole wants to do is waste days trekking through the wilderness with nothing but a snarky ghost and a boy who's made it his life's mission to save a dead girl for company. Not that she has much choice; if she can't restore her connection to the dreamscape before it's too late, her newfound friends won't be the only ones to pay the price. But more than just monsters stand in her way—and this time, taking back the power to stop them might just break her.
Black the Tides is the second book in a binge-ready lush and labyrinthine trilogy of paranormal-meets-gothic-dystopian YA Fantasy filled with monster-infested mountains, haunted forests, and unexpected twists for those who like a little sparkle with their monsters (it glistens so nicely on all the blood.) Fans of cinematic solarpunk utopian planning, dark Northern Gothic forests, and monster-hunting road trips will love this genre-bending dark fantasy with a devastating cliffhanger twist.
Buy Black the Tides for a shocking voyage into dark seas today!
K.A. Wiggins is a Vancouver-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and CWC writing coach. Her work explores social movements, environmental crises, and identity through intricate, dreamlike tales of monsters and magic.
Her 2018 debut, Blind the Eyes<, was a Barnes & Noble Press pick for "20 Favorite Indie Books of 2018" and the companion short, Letter From the End of the World, has been translated into Italian by Virgibooks as Lettera dalla fine del mondo. Her short fiction has been published by Enchanted Conversation Magazine, Fiction-Atlas Press, and The Earthian Hivemind's Frozen Wavelets.
Notably, she was a guest speaker at the first ORCHIDS Children's Literature Fest in Mumbai and is an executive team member and registered speaker with the Children's Writers and Illustrators of British Columbia (CWILL BC) Society. She also teaches storytelling as a mentor with the Creative Writing for Children Society.
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