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I can’t tell you how excited I am to be in your inboxes today with this news. This is a moment I’ve imagined for such a long time, and I’m so incredibly happy you’re sharing it with me.
In addition to writing YA books, I’m officially making my adult debut! My first adult novel, A SHARED HAUNTING, will be published by Dutton/Penguin Random House, and is set to haunt bookstores summer 2026.
If you’ve been following me on Instagram, you might know that I’ve sneakily been calling this one “heart book” for a little while. The nickname has a lot to do with the plot, but A SHARED HAUNTING (aka ASH) is very much a heart book—along with a blood, sweat, and tears book.
Some stories fester inside you for years before you figure out exactly how to tell them. Some stories need to be rewritten before they can be written right, and not just once. Several times. You start and restart. Tear it up and put it back together, rinse and repeat. But the story refuses to go away, refuses to stay on a shelf or in a drawer because it’s a part of you now.
For me, that book was ASH.
Ultimately, ASH has found its perfect editorial home, and in less than two years, this novel will be on shelves. In stores. In your hands. It might take a while for it to sink in for me, but I’ll never stop being so incredibly grateful that I get to share this particular book with the world.
With that, I’m going to save ASH’s origin story for another day—because it is quite a long story. Today, let’s talk about what you’ll find within the pages!
A SHARED HAUNTING is a romantic horror novel (a horrormance, if you will) that follows a theater student named Mallory Webb who enrolls at the same college her late mother attended, in hopes of understanding her mysterious and terrifying death. There, she finds herself racing against time to break a devastating curse alongside two of her classmates, all while facing down the vengeful, supernatural entities that could either force this trio closer together—or toward a tragic end.
A list of elements and themes and vibes? Did you expect anything else?
An atmospheric (and deeply haunted) college campus in autumn
A trio of chaotic theater majors in a production of Romeo + Juliet
Foggy, moody Rhode Island setting
New England Vampire Panic lore
Queer rep, with a bisexual main character
“They each have different pieces of my heart” kind of love triangle
A sapphic romance perfect for anyone who still hasn’t gotten over Dani + Jamie from Bly Manor
An absolute menace of a MMC with major “fine, make me your villain” vibes
A dose of lovers-to-enemies
But also reluctant-allies-to-lovers 👀
“Is this scary or is this hot?” (Why not both?)
Seances as a form of flirting
B l o o d (positive)
And allll the angsty romance woven into one deeply haunted story
In a nutshell, A SHARED HAUNTING is a blood-soaked, steamy book about a college campus with an insidious past. It stars a chaos bi theater major who finds herself entrenched in a supernatural curse that’s rooted much deeper in her life than she ever thought possible.
But this is also a story about generational female rage, about finding the right words for your identity, about throwing away everything you once thought about love and building something new. Even if it’s messy and confusing and perhaps downright terrifying. It’s about how theater can be a remedy, a drug, a balm for the soul. It’s about feeling invisible your whole life and finally feeling seen.
It’s a story for anyone who needs to feel a little less alone in the dark. Because sometimes a book can turn on a light.
This one, however, will be a ghost light.
I can’t wait for you to meet Mallory, Ezra, and Saskia. They have lived inside my heart for years. And soon, they will hopefully find their way to yours.
Welcome to Shore College. Fall semester ‘26 is going to be a haunted one.
