The Lost Ones

I recently got my dear publisher, Zittaw Press, to relinquish to me the rights to my first published book, Lost Ones: The Ghosts of Paris. (Side note: they picked the title, which I've never particularly liked, but that's how it is).

The story is a YA novella, centering around the idea of an alternate-universe French Revolution, with magic. As per the cover blurb:

One hundred years after the French Revolution, the Terror still reigns in France. A rag-tag group of survivors, calling themselves the Lost Ones, huddle in the dreary ruins of a once magnificent palace. Protected by magic and assailed by ghosts, they work against the hunters who wish to destroy them. Brave Falstaff, the leader of the band; the librarian Benedick and his wife, healer Plum, protect an even more dangerous secret, for they alone hold the key that can save their future. After a violent storm, a young woman is found within the palace grounds. Who is she, and how did she come to be here? As they search for answers, Benedick and Falstaff make a discovery in the Parisian catacombs, a discovery that leads them to the sealed University, where no one has set foot since a monstrous event almost a hundred years before. What they find unleashes a danger that could kill them all, and leads to a battle that could cost them their very lives.

I was studying 18th century France at the time of writing, so there's a lot of history, a lot of spookiness (I do like me ghosties and ghoulies and things that go bump in the night), and a few catacombs and graveyards thrown in for good measure. Versailles itself is a character, which was terribly fun to write.

Anyone who would like to download Lost Ones can visit my page at Lulu: tinyurl.com/ct7beeq. The Lulu version is cheaper than what you'll find on Amazon, but buy there, first. :-)