My latest novel, The Maiden of Gevaudan, is out for submission.
Update, 2023: TMG has gone through multiple revisions and, to no surprise, I am still in love with the premise. However, after five years, I am most definitely going back and rewriting the whole thing. Look for updates on this project and more in 2023 and 2024.
Where will it go? Well, I’ve used this character in another novel and I would much rather delve deep into the mythological aspects of my Polish roots alongside my French roots. So, a new main character is in the works.
I have to admit, I am super excited about getting back to this project. Gothic horror is one of my favourite genres and I have a real taste for this right now.
Here’s a taste:
1768. Ekaterina Racovitža could still feel the echo of her sister’s body trembling, blood caking upon the bronzed haunches of the eagle adorning the Russian Tula blade lodged in Ionela’s chest. Three months and a thousand miles beyond that day, the gurgle of the girl’s lungs drowning, the last of her once-powerful Moldavian family murdered, still stung Kat’s ears. She’d failed to save them.
The Maiden of Gevaudan Is Coming
Exiled in a remote commune in Southern France, her grief, regret, and isolation have turned to madness. The notorious, malevolent La Bête has come for her.
Fuelled by the redemption offered in one man’s plea to find his daughter, Kat discovers a countryside severed from the rest of the world. It leads her into a realm of bizarre devotions, violent passions, and one family’s irredeemable loss. There, she is forced to determine the fate of herself and the Gevaudan, revealing the nature of the monstrous in all of us.