Sarah McCarry

This is a story about love, but not the kind of love you think. You’ll see… In the lush and magical Pacific Northwest live two best friends who grew up like sisters: charismatic, mercurial, and beautiful Aurora, and the devoted, watchful narrator. Each of them is incomplete without the other. But their unbreakable bond is challenged when a mysterious and gifted musician named Jack comes between them. Suddenly, each girl must decide what matters most: friendship or love. What both girls don’t know is that the stakes are even higher than either of them could have imagined. They're not the only ones who have noticed Jack’s gift; his music has awakened an ancient evil—and a world both above and below which may not be mythical at all. And it’s up to the narrator to protect the people she loves—if she can. Source: Sarah McCarry

Sarah McCarry's "Blue is a Darkness Weakened by Light" is about a lonely young woman, recently moved to the big city, who is looking for love. What she finds is a friend and confidante who is much older and wiser than she.

Eighteen-year-old Tally is absolutely sure of everything: her genius, the love of her adoptive family, the loyalty of her best friend, Shane, and her future career as a Nobel prize-winning astronomer. There's no room in her tidy world for heartbreak or uncertainty or the charismatic, troubled mother who abandoned her soon after she was born. But when a sudden discovery upends her fiercely ordered world, Tally sets out on an unexpected quest to seek out the reclusive musician who may hold the key to her past and instead finds Maddy, an enigmatic and beautiful girl who will unlock the door to her future. The deeper she falls in love with Maddy, the more Tally begins to realize that the universe is bigger and more complicated than she ever imagined. Can Tally face the truth about her family and find her way home in time to save herself from its consequences?

Fresh-faced ingénue Sofia Bencivenga arrives in Los Angeles long on dreams and short on cash. Alone, friendless, and broke, Sofia has almost resigned herself to the emptiness of her days, until a chance encounter brings her into the dazzling world of a charismatic group of authors-handsome, compelling Jaxson; bitchy Judith; and aloof, mysterious Alison-and their wealthy, successful, and amoral group of friends. But underneath the glamour of the writers' lives are secrets Sofia never imagined, and when Alison ends up dead on the rocks below Jaxson's behemoth seaside gothic mansion, Sofia realizes that the cracks beneath the glittering surface of Alison's pretty little life ran deep. And Sofia has a few secrets of her own... Equal parts love letter to Donna Tartt and Patricia Highsmith, The Darling Killersis a darkly funny, sexy, and sinister noir about the people we pretend to be around the people we want to become.

"In this retelling of the Persephone myth, an unlikely friendship develops between Cass, a teenaged runaway, and Maia, a piano prodigy imprisoned in the oppressive silence of her adoptive parents' house. When Cass frees Maia from her sheltered life and the hypnotic blue-eyed rocker Jason appears on the scene, an ancient evil is awakened"--

Like a wild pony emerging from a wall of flames, the second issue of LAB is here! With a whinny and a snort, it impatiently awaits to be mounted by your dauntless intellect. This issue is chockablock with words, pictures, and colors. But not just any words, pictures, or colors. Fancy words, snazzy pictures, and jazzy colors! With lazer-like focalization, unreasonable precision, and incorrigible ingenuity, LAB serves up a buffet of content for your refined palette. Also on the menu: mixed metaphors, comics, sign painters, and spicy vernacular typography.