Of Monsters and Madness - Hardcover

A romantic, historical retelling of classic Gothic horror featuring Edgar Allan Poe and his character Annabel Lee, from aNew York Times best-selling author.

Annabel Lee is summoned from Siam to live with her father in 1820's Philadelphia shortly after her mother's death, but an unconventional upbringing makes her repugnant to her angry, secretive father.

Annabel becomes infatuated with her father's assistant Allan, who dabbles in writing when he's not helping with medical advancements. But in darker hours, when she's not to be roaming the house, she encounters the devilish assistant Edgar, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Allan, and who others insist doesn't exist.

A rash of murders across Philadelphia, coupled with her father's strange behavior, leads Annabel to satisfy her curiosity and uncover a terrible truth: Edgar and Allan are two halves of the same person - and they are about to make the crimes detailed in Allan's stories come to life. Unless Annabel stops them.

Releases simultaneously in electronic book format (ISBN: 9781606844649).

Jessica Verday is the New York Times best-selling author of The Hollow trilogy. She wrote the first draft ofThe Hollow by hand, using thirteen spiral-bound notebooks and fifteen black pens. The first draft ofThe Haunted took fifteen spiral-bound notebooks and twenty black pens. The Hidden took too many notebooks and too many pens to count.

She lives in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, with her husband.

You can visit her online at www.jessicaverday.com. The author lives in Goodlettsville, TN.