PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
ERIKA JOHANSEN grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She went to Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania before attending the celebrated Iowa Writers Workshop, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree. She eventually became an attorney but she never stopped writing. Her debut was the international bestseller, The Queen of the Tearling - the first novel in a remarkable trilogy. This was followed by the acclaimed The Invasion of the Tearling and The Fate of the Tearling. Erika now lives in England.
Fantasy, history, and horror make an incredible confection in THE KINGDOM OF SWEETS, a terrifying and sugary take on The Nutcracker that you'll devour as quickly as you can. -- HANNAH WHITTEN, bestselling author of For the Wolf THE KINGDOM OF SWEETS drags you headfirst into its world of horror and whimsy, where the lines between reality, dream, and nightmare are far thinner and more porous than you think. Dark, twisty, and delicious, Johansen will keep you guessing until the curtain falls. -- VAISHNAVI PATEL, bestselling author of Kaikeyi In this gripping reimagining of the holiday classic, Erika Johansen shatters the sugar plum surface of the original Nutcracker to plunge deep into the shadows beneath . . . Johansen entwines love and hate, jealousy and pity, vengeance and forgiveness so tightly, it's impossible to decide which twin to root for . . . gives readers the gift of a compelling and richly imagined story that will keep them turning pages until the last, fully realized twist. -- LIZ MICHALSKI, author of Darling Girl
