about the book
Seventeen-year-old Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat who can see the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. With her Van Helsing lineage, Micheline has trained all of her life to destroy monsters—both corpses and spirits. Corpses are shot down with a bullet, but spiritual energy must be captured on film.
At her side, she has her team: Oliver the tech-whiz, developer of her special camera technology; Jude, predictor of death; and Ryder, the boy who has had Micheline’s heart forever.
During a ghost hunt gone wrong, Micheline and her crew are infected with soulchain, a curse that threatens to kill her and her friends. The only way to survive is for Micheline to exorcise her entity—and she has only seven days.
Now her monster-hunting father wants Micheline to be a renegade agent, leaving her with the task of destroying the most powerful monster she’s ever encountered.
about the author
Author Courtney Alameda, a native of Northern California, has always been surrounded by books. As an adolescent, Courtney was bullied and sought books as her escape, reading authors like J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Robin McKinley, and Michael Crichton. As an adult, she spent almost eight years working in a bookstore and then five years in libraries, where she spent her time trying to convince others to read great books.
Courtney received a bachelor’s degree in English Literature with a Creative Writing emphasis from Brigham Young University. She now works as a writer of thriller and horror novels for young adults and lives in Utah with a ton of books and a five pound cat.
Source:
Author website
Author interview: The Hiding Spot
Also by Courtney Alameda:
Pitch Dark. Feiwel and Friends. October 2016.
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