Incredible PNW YA authors Courtney Gould and Lily Meade will be celebrating their new releases while closing out Shadow Sister's book tour! Register for free here. I assume if you are on my website for event info, you already know who I am, so I’d like to spotlight the other featured guests of this event.
Courtney Gould
Courtney Gould writes books about queer girls, ghosts, and things that go bump in the night. Her debut novel, THE DEAD AND THE DARK, came out Summer 2021 from Wednesday Books, and her sophomore novel WHERE ECHOES DIE will release in 2023.
Courtney Gould writes books about queer girls, ghosts, and things that go bump in the night. She graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in 2016 with a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and Publishing, and now lives in Salem, OR where she continues to write love letters to small towns and haunted places. The Dead and the Dark is her debut novel.
Where Echoes Die by Courtney Gould
Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigative reporter. She finds herself unable to stop herself from slipping into memories of happier days, clamoring for a time when things were normal. So when a mysterious letter in her mother’s handwriting arrives in the mail with the words Come and find me, pointing to a town called Backravel, Beck hopes that it may hold the answers.
But when Beck and her sister Riley arrive in Backravel, Arizona it’s clear that there’s something off about the town. There are no cars, no cemeteries, no churches. The town is a mix of dilapidated military structures and new, shiny buildings, all overseen by the town’s gleaming treatment center high on a plateau. No one seems to remember when they got there, and the only people who seem to know more than they’re letting on is the town’s enigmatic leader and his daughter, Avery.
As the sisters search for answers about their mother, Beck and Avery become more drawn together, and their unexpected connection brings up emotions Beck has buried since her mother’s death. Beck is desperate to hold onto the way things used to be, and when she starts losing herself in Backravel and its connection to her mother, will there be a way for Beck to pull herself out?
In her sophomore novel Courtney Gould draws readers into the haunting town of Backravel and explores grief, the weight of not letting go of the past, first love, and the bonds between sisters, mothers and daughters.
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