Meet Adren: outlaw, misanthrope, hellbent on obtaining a cure for an insane unicorn.
Adren hates humans, and with good reason. Protecting the unicorn from them even as she searches for a cure means running headlong into the worst of human need - and greed. With years of this under her belt, it's bound to leave scars. Now, trying to steal a sealskin in exchange for a possible cure when money isn't enough, she runs into the awkward and at-least-mostly human Nadin, who insists on helping her.
When the truth of the sealskin - and the cure - is revealed and Adren begins to fall apart, she might be able to rely on Nadin as an ally. Or she might lose all that's dear to her. Either way, she's going to have to go head-to-head with the mysteries shaking themselves loose in her own mind and the nightmarish event that unlocked the first of them from its cage.
Here's to hoping no-one gets in the way.
About the Author: Thea van Diepen hails from the snowy land of Canada and that fairest of cities, Edmonton, Alberta. She is, of course, entirely unbiased, as she has a Bachelor's in psychology (wait, that's not how that works...) and is obsessed with Orphan Black, the books of Madeleine L'Engle, and nerdy language things.
When Thea was eight years old, she took a test in school that required her to write a story. This prospect excited her greatly, and she decided to write an epic fantasy adventure. Upon opening the test, she discovered she had to incorporate a girl going on a hike with her family. Thinking fast, she opened the story with said hike, dropped the girl through a hole into a magical world, thereby ditching the family on the mountainside, and happily wrote whatever she wanted until the end of the test.
Her website is expectedaberrations.com, home of all things that lie on the edge of the bell curve, and she can be contacted via that site in English or French. If you do email her in French, though, please don't ask her to count in it as she tends to skip numbers ending in six entirely by accident.
