THIS PACT IS NOT OURS
Cover Art by Dri Gomez
For the cover, we aimed to lean into the Sarah Michelle Gellar trifecta: Cruel Intentions, I Know What You Did Last Summer & Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Summertime sadness, splashiness, spookiness, scarring, and some serious social angst vibes!
we were so sure we could do better…but were we dead wrong?
The summer before college Luca Piccone returns to Copper Cove, the idyllic campsite he and his closest friends have visited every year since they were kids. To Luca, Copper Cove is like the setting of the fantasy movies he loves, a sanctuary protected from the dangers of the outside world, where nothing goes wrong and everything stays the same.
But this year things are changing.
Desperate to make this summer the best one yet, Luca tries to ignore the freshly torn rifts within his tight friend group, the pangs of unrequited love, the anxiety attacks he thought he’d left back at school, and the shadows at the edge of the forest threatening to break free. Until he learns the terrible truth.
Every generation the children of four families are bound by a pact. A pact designed to keep the camp pristine and the monstrous force lurking beneath the campsite imprisoned. But in order to do this, an unthinkable price must be paid--a price that has soaked the previous generations in blood. Can Luca keep his friends, and his favorite place, from being ripped apart?
By the end of the summer, only one thing is for certain: Copper Cove will never be the same again.
This Pact Is Not Ours is a summer-soaked, coming-of-age, horror YA about the impact of growing up and trying to do better than the previous generations. Harkening back to early Kevin Williamson, it’s I Know What You Did Last Summer set on Dawson’s Creek, with the contemporary edge of We Were Liars and the brain-melting horror of Stranger Things. Available in Hardcover, Paperback & EBook wherever books are sold.
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COVERAGE
School Library Journal Guest Post. The Reading Corner Interview. The Nerd Daily Interview. A Very Queer Book Club Interview. On The Shelf Podcast. Lambda Literary Best October Release.