Melissa Albert is a former bookseller, YA lit blogger, and The New York Times and indie bestselling author of the Hazel Wood series (The Hazel Wood, The Night Country, Tales from the Hinterland). Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages and included in The New York Times list of Notable Children’s Books. On the way home from a party, 17-year-old Ivy and her soon-to-be ex nearly run over a nude young woman standing in the middle of a tree-lined road. It’s only the first in a string of increasingly eerie events and offerings in Our Crooked Hearts (Flatiron Books). There’s also a dead rabbit in the driveway, a bizarre concoction buried in the backyard, a box of childhood keepsakes hidden in her parents’ safe, and, most unsettling, corroded recollections of Ivy and her enigmatic mother’s past resurfacing with the help of the boy next door. Is there more to her mother than meets the eye? Are the supernatural forces she messed with coming back to haunt Ivy and her friend? The darkness is closing in. Our Crooked Hearts is a contemporary fantasy full of secrets, lies, bad choices, and dangerous magic.
