Emma After is my first YA novel. It tells the tale of 18-year-old Emma Crothers who is bored and frustrated living in her small town. However after dying in her small town, and getting chased by soul-swallowing wraiths called Hollows, Em realises she had it a lot better before.
Fleeing to the Fountaindale Grand Manor, a safe-haven for spirits, Emma meets a colourful community of the deceased, led by the alluring caretaker, Jack. However, just when she starts to adapt to the afterlife, a family of living Breathers invades the Manor, throwing everything into chaos.
Emma must help haunt the Breathers away in order to save her new family from the massing Hollows outside. Which is why it’s extremely less than ideal when she begins to fall for her unreasonably attractive haunting target Andrew.
Emma After is a thrilling adventure, brimming with action, humour, horror and romance, set in an afterlife that’s very different to what you might expect. It has shades of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice, Stephen King’s The Shining and even a pinch or two of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. But don’t take my word for it, check out what these much more important people have said:
“Emma After is both thrilling and so very surprising that ‘original’ would be an understatement. It is a rollercoaster ride no one will want to miss.”
Isobelle Carmody (Author The Obernewtyn Chronicles, Greylands)
“Endlessly imaginative and full of heart, Emma After is an absorbing, exciting read I never wanted to put down. In short, it’s utterly dazzling!”
Devin Madson (Author We Ride the Storm, Vengeance Trilogy)