Jenny Howe’s SummerWeen Spectacular
Join Jenny Howe, Aleese Lin, and Kelly Andrew as we celebrate the release of Jenny’s new YA Romance, How (Not) to Renovate a Haunted House!
In this spooky, small-town Summerween romance, an amateur ghost hunter and a supernatural skeptic team up for a haunted home renovation project. But is their relationship the real fixer upper?
Jenny Howe, one of our favorite authors, returns to The Purple Couch to celebrate the release of her second Young Adult novel How (Not) to Renovate a Haunted House. She will be in conversation with fellow authors Aleese Lin and Kelly Andrew to make it a celebration of spooky SummerWeen reads. Your $13.80 tax-inclusive ticket includes the panel and your copy of How (Not) to Renovate a Haunted House. Please email us at mailto:info@purplecouchbookshop.com if you’d like to reserve copies of Jenny’s backlist or Aleese or Kelly’s books.
About the book: Amity Callaway is sick of being known as the weird girl. As annoyed as she is that her recently divorced mom just moved them across the country to the tiny, quirky town of Harlow’s Rest, Massachusetts, it could be the fresh start she needs. Until Amity discovers their absolute disaster of a new house is supposedly haunted.
Theo Hargrave, amateur ghost hunter and son of the local general contractor, is a true believer. When he shows up on their property with his EMF reader in hand, Amity is ready to debunk all his theories.
But even Amity can admit their home renovation is doomed. Nothing is going right, from the paint that refuses to dry to the fixtures that keep coming loose. So Amity and Theo strike a deal—his family’s construction expertise for her help investigating the house’s supernatural secrets. Even scarier than ghosts, though? Amity’s growing feelings for Theo.
Samantha Spük: Paranormal Wedding Planner by Aleese Lin: Samantha Spük is your go-to wedding planner, be it for werewolf, vampire, or fae…even if that’s the last thing she would’ve imagined. Samantha “Sabby” Spük has spent her life trying to escape her family’s legacy of supernatural chaos. But then she gets the call: Grandma Rose is gone, and Sabby has been named executor of her (ahem, magically binding) will. Now Sabby is stuck in her dreaded hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, taking on odd jobs for not-so-human locals—until she can sell the family home. Sabby might pull these weddings off in time to salvage her accounting career…but is she ready to say goodbye to her paranormal one?
The Gravewood by Kelly Andrew: The first in a darkly romantic duology that explores disability, obsession, and the twisted limits of loyalty.
Shea Parker has lived her entire life in the shadow of the Gravewood, an impassable forest that’s cut off her town from the rest of the world. With resources limited and supplies scarce, Shea is forced to carefully ration her hearing aid batteries. When her stash runs out, she’ll be left in the silence. Desperate, Shea turns to the only person who can help — Oliver Lysander, the volatile leader of a vampiric gang that rules the Gravewood.
The arrangement between Shea and Lysander starts off simply enough. She gives him her blood. He tracks down batteries. They don’t cross any lines. They don’t make it personal. But when Shea’s best friend is lured into the Gravewood, her disappearance brings her older brother home from the frontlines. Asher Thorley is willing to do whatever it takes to find his sister, even if it means holding Shea’s ugliest secrets over her head. For the first time ever, Shea finds herself leaving home. Swallowed up in the dreamlike dark of the Gravewood and traveling in the company of killers, it isn’t long before she risks becoming one herself.