Crestfall:
A Novel of Earth and Fire
Lily
St. John McKee
Genre: young adult/paranormal
Publisher: Posterity Press, Inc.
Date of Publication: November 23,
2015
ISBN: 978-1-889274-50-8
Word Count: 64,425
Cover Artist: Robert L. Wiser
Book Description:
Crestfall is a dark fantasy with
a heart of love—for the earth, its creatures and plants, for people who strive,
care, and face down fear.
Its young heroine, Aria Andrews,
interrupts her medieval history studies to attend her sister’s funeral in a town
on the rugged coast of Newfoundland.
Her estranged twin was murdered,
and Aria becomes a suspect before setting out to uncover the brutal truth with
the help of her brother Fynn, his girlfriend Sophie (a witch), and forthright
Bennet Halfnight, a handsome detective.
All three Andrews siblings have
possessed unworldly natural powers; Aria uses hers to pursue an old antagonist
and confront new ones: shape-shifters and werewolves in this startling romantic
novel of beastly gore and human tenderness.
CHAPTER
1: STRANGER THINGS
Myths are truths
buried beneath layers of speculation and obscurity. There are those who would
disagree, but I have seen enough of the world beneath the veneer of
civilization to know better. Legends travel in the same boat as myths. They
only differ because they were once thought to be real, but the validity of such
things has been shrouded by the passage of several generations.
These thoughts circled in my mind as
I waited to go through the long lines at immigration and at the airport car
rental. With a long drive ahead, I stopped to stock up on the necessities –
food, water, and a couple of books on CD.
In northeastern Canada, an island
called Newfoundland breaches the Arctic Circle. Newfoundland is a strange
place. The Vikings found it, but did not stay. The Irish, English, Portuguese,
Spanish and the French settled the wild land in the 18th and 19th centuries. It
is a rough land, full of crags and uneven edges. The climate weeds out those
who are unable to withstand colder weather. It takes a sturdy constitution to
survive in the vicious winters and cool summers. The temperature rarely climbs
above 70 degrees Fahrenheit. The water can be an unreal shade of blue, such as
one would never see north of the tropics. The forests that line the coast are
thick and green in the summer. Coral formations sit just underwater in the
coves bordered by the jagged coast. Thousands of years of erosion are lined by
watermarks that delineate the different water levels. And this island is where
my siblings have decided to live.
About
the Author:
Lily St. John McKee was born
November 24, 1987, in Washington, D.C. Finding refuge in books from childhood
challenges, she graduated cum laude from Ohio’s Muskingum University in 2011
and earned a master’s degree at Bath Spa University in England. She traveled
widely—to Costa Rica, Iceland, Patagonia, Egypt, and Newfoundland, the setting
for her novel Crestfall, which she finished in the autumn of 2014.
In the winter Lily McKee fell ill
and passed away on March 19, 2015.
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