Daily Archives: September 13, 2016

Keeper of the Dolls Sold to 47North

A new standalone Holmberg novel, tentatively titled Keeper of the Dolls,  has been sold to 47North and is currently set for a 2017 release!

After discovering a room full of matryoshka dolls wearing the faces of her village, a woman learns she may be trapped inside one—but unraveling the sorcery carved into each doll unleashes dark consequences that rip her from the only home she remembers.

Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet Released

Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet has released and is available for purchase wherever such books are sold! (If in doubt, go here.)

Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet cover

Maire is a baker with an extraordinary gift: she can infuse her treats with emotions and abilities, which are then passed on to those who eat them. She doesn’t know why she can do this and remembers nothing of who she is or where she came from.

When marauders raid her town, Maire is captured and sold to the eccentric Allemas, who enslaves her and demands that she produce sinister confections, including a witch’s gingerbread cottage, a living cookie boy, and size-altering cakes.

During her captivity, Maire is visited by Fyel, a ghostly being who is reluctant to reveal his connection to her. The more often they meet, the more her memories return, and she begins to piece together who and what she really is—as well as past mistakes that yield cosmic consequences.

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