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Paige Hender

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Paige Hender is a graphic novelist inspired by the macabre and the whimsical. When she's not making critically acclaimed comics, she can be found knitting at home in Shreveport, Louisiana, with her cats Chaplin and Keaton.

 

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Witch's Inheritance

Features stunning black stained edges!

A contemporary dark fantasy graphic novel about a young woman who discovers she comes from a long line of witches and is tasked with keeping her new town safe from the creatures lurking in the forest―for fans of E. M. Carroll, Molly Knox Ostertag, and Trung Le Nguyen.

* "Atmospheric, well-realized, and terrifying." ― Kirkus, starred review

* "Truly spectacular." ― Booklist, starred review

Home is where the monsters are...

Edie Birch needs an escape from her crumbling life. When a death in the family leaves Edie the inheritor of a strange, towering house in the small town of Hart Creek, she doesn’t look back.

While she tries to connect with her estranged aunt and learn more about her mysterious family history, she uncovers a shocking truth: She comes from a long line of witches. The heir to her grandmother’s powers, Edie is Hart Creek’s only hope to keep away the beasts lurking at the forest’s edge. As she struggles to master her magic, she’ll enlist the help of local folklore nerd Leander and discovers secrets that will leave her questioning who the true monsters are . . .

The Confessional: A Graphic Novel

In this compelling debut horror graphic novel, a newly turned vampire yearns for salvation in the arms of the priest who uncovers her secret.

New Orleans, 1922. Cora Velasquez lives with her sister and her own haunted memories in a speakeasy run by a vampire coven. Unable to bear the weight of her damned soul, she turns to Father Orville Thibodeaux, a charismatic priest and the object of her hidden desires. Their veiled courtship becomes deadly serious when he discovers her nature, and proposes a way to both slake her thirst and save her soul. So begins the charged dance between an all-powerful but unsure young woman, and the mortal man who claims to hold her fate in his hand. A gothic story of adoration, power, and manipulation, lushly told in Art Nouveau-inspired illustration.