Part of InCryptid
First published 2018
Antimony Price is running. The Covenant is behind her, her family is at risk, and she has cut herself off from everyone she trusts, even the Aeslin mice who have always traveled with her. She lands at Lowryland, a massive Florida amusement park, because a crowd is the best place to disappear. She gets a job, finds a room with gorgon and sylph housemates, and tries to keep a low profile long enough to build a plan that gets her home alive. Then a man turns up dead on the grounds. The killing pulls Annie into contact with a secret group of magic users who have been running Lowryland from the inside. They have noticed the fire she carries in her hands. They want her in their circle, and they are offering help. But their help is not free. Annie has no backup, no exit, and no real plan. She has to figure out whether these people are allies or just a different kind of trap, and she has to do it before the accidents stop looking like accidents.
Genres: adventure, mystery, fantasy, young-adult, urban-fantasy
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, fast-paced, gritty, suspenseful
Tropes: forced-proximity, found-family, hidden-magic, trust-no-one
Setting: Lowryland, Florida
432 pages · ebook · DAW Books
Content warnings: death, violence