It's been seven months since Aubany's nightmare vacation to Nula Island—where she not only fell in love with her snarky neighbor, Ryan Rupert, but survived a brutal stabbing to the gut.
Now, Aubany has been invited by her friend Lewis to his family's cabin in the mountains of Blakesky for Spring Break. However, memories of Courtney attacking her still plague her—even though it's been months since her last sighting. Not to mention that Ryan has started avoiding conversations about the future together, and the town of Blakesky has a strange, unsettling history surrounding it.
But nothing could possibly bring Courtney back into their lives after all this time, and things with her and Ryan are fine… Or at least, that's what Aubany's determined to believe—except Aubany's no safer in Blakesky than she was on Nula Island, and she's about to discover a dark secret that will not only threaten her and Ryan's relationship… but could bring her face to face with death once more.
P.S.Malcolm (Pagan) grew up in Proserpine, Queensland— a small, Australian country town on the edge of the Great Barrier Reef. She was a storyteller from a young age and spent years perfecting her craft.
For two years, she juggled waitressing in tourist filled coffee shops while undertaking two degrees in Creative Writing online— one specializing in children's fiction and publishing. She has always had an interest in writing, but never saw herself working in the industry until she made the choice to self-publish her debut novel, STUCK ON VACATION WITH RYAN RUPERT. Realizing that she loved the process of publishing her book, she pursued an internship at a publishing house and snagged a spot as Pen Name Publishing's Marketing Assistant Intern.
In between interning and writing, Pagan started her online business Paperback Kingdom and is now a copywriter and coach for ambitious fiction authors like herself— helping them to tell and sell their stories.
Pagan is a cat enthusiast, tea lover, and floral fanatic. She keeps a well-stocked tea collection, and if the 'florals' weren't a dead giveaway, she's a proud Hufflepuff and is crazy about the colour yellow.
Pagan also enjoys reading— particularly fantasy and paranormal. Some of her favourite and most influential authors include Amanda Gernentz Hanson, A.G. Howard, Marissa Meyer and Michele Jaffe.
Her latest and bestselling fantasy novel, LANTERNS IN THE SKY, was published The Parliament House Publishing in 2019. Get instant access the first three chapters for free here: https://bit.ly/2L5AFls