One dreary day in London, she missed home and started writing The Casquette Girls. Her debut novel garnered over one million reads online before it was acquired by Skyscape in a two book deal.

Her hair ranges from eggplant to cotton-candy colored. She cut her teeth on the streets of New York and has worked all around the world since. In this spellbinding continuation of The Casquette Girls saga, Adele must draw on the past-from seventeenth-century Florence, a time bubbling with alchemy and fraternal betrayal-and sort history from fantasy if she is to have any chance of saving her mother, her coven, and her magic.Īlys Arden was raised by the street performers, tea leaf-readers, and glittering drag queens of the New Orleans French Quarter.

They had to evacuate the state (Louisiana) when a big hurricane came through the area and then stalled causing considerable damage. Adele Le Moyne (just turned sixteen) is returning home to New Orleans with her father after being away for two months. But a new threat is rising: the Medici's presence has attracted something else to New Orleans.an older enemy, one that will bring Isaac's haunted past to life, test the witches' friendships, and jeopardize Adele and Isaac's blossoming relationship. The Casquette Girls by Arlys Arden is a young adult paranormal romance story. Sensing Nicco calling to Adele, Isaac tries relentlessly to keep her from exploring paths too dark that would endanger them all. Not even the multitude of enchanted locks on the attic door trapping Nicco within can break their connection. But every turn leads her back to the one person she's determined to forget: Niccolo Medici.

Tormented by the fate she condemned her mother to, and by the lies she's forced to tell to cover it up, Adele scours storm-ravaged New Orleans for the truth about her family's magical past. Release Date: July 26, 2022.Expect costume finery (and please wear) when Alys Arden reads from and signs her new book, THE ROMEO CATCHERS. Mysteries and magic surround her as she reveals the truth about her family's legacy, and confronts the illusion that has been cast over her entire life. She walks her giant rabbit on a leather leash down the boardwalk, lives in a colossal architectural wonder known as the Golden Elephant, had her first kiss in the Haunted Hell Gate ride-and wouldn't have it any other way.īut the time for having fun in Luna Park comes to an end when a mystic's quest for a powerful jewel unravels everything Zatanna thought she knew about herself and her beloved neighborhood. There's more to the mobsters, mystics, and mermaids at the last stop on the D/F/Q trains: Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue. From the bewitching mind behind The Casquette Girls, Alys Arden, and with enchanting artwork by Jacquelin de Leon comes the story of a girl stuck in the middle of a magical rivalry and forced to choose between love, family, and magic without hurting anyone.or worse. After the Storm of the Century rips apart New Orleans, Adele Le Moyne and her father are among the first to return to the city following the mandatory.

The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden