A.C. describes herself as an author of horror thrillers, with gothic romance & weird girl lit vibes. She is an active member of the Horror Writers Association.
When she’s not participating in macabre ceremonies dedicated to the eldritch horrors out in the woods, A.C. enjoys spending time with her family; her husband, two sons, and border collie named Maximus. She loves a good horror movie, and of course, getting swallowed whole by a good book.
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Going to the Six
On Lake Superior, some wrecks never rest.
When acclaimed documentary filmmaker Owen Wheeler leads a four–person crew aboard a Michigan DNR research vessel to investigate the wreck of the Keuka—a floating speakeasy long lost beneath the cold, black waters of Lake Superior—he believes he’s chasing history. What they bring back instead is something far stranger.
Told through fragmented footage, blog journals, news clippings, and Owen’s own testimony from inside a psychiatric facility, this haunting novel unfolds across two timelines; the ill-fated expedition and the haunted present. As the record fractures, so too does Owen’s grip on what truly happened aboard the vessel.
Locals whisper of an old superstition—six signs that come before a person loses their mind. Did the crew uncover a secret buried with the Keuka? Or are Owen’s memories a labyrinth of guilt, grief, and madness?
A story of truth versus memory, the collapse of time, and the thin seam between reality and delusion, Going to the Six drags the reader down into the depths—where silence presses in, light cannot reach, and dread waits patiently in the dark.
Going to the Six will be published by Cemetery Dance Publications, and featured in their Trade Paperback Book Club in 2026. Official release date TBA.
Difficult Woman
When Elizabeth O’Roarke agrees to spend a week on her husband’s family’s private island in northern Minnesota, she tells herself it’s only a wellness retreat—seven days of yoga, meditation, and bonding with women she barely knows.
But the island has its own pulse, its own humidity, its own secrets. And the O’Roarke women—led by her enigmatic mother-in-law, Margaret—seem less interested in wellness than in awakening something restless inside her.
As the days pass, the sessions grow stranger. The women’s confessions feel raw, yet oddly too rehearsed. The forest hums with a sweetness that clings to her skin, and Elizabeth begins to see her marriage—and her entire life—through new, unsettling eyes. She has spent years molding herself into the wife, the woman, she was supposed to be. Here, the island urges her to shed all of it.
But freedom has teeth. Beneath the rituals and candle lit circles lies a darker truth, and by the time Elizabeth uncovers it, the island has already begun remaking her. The question is no longer whether she will leave—but whether she still wants to.
Difficult Woman is a hypnotic descent into feminine power, ecological decay, and the terrifying beauty of shedding the life you were told to want for the one that wants you back.
Release date TBD.
Withered Blooms
In a world where death is no obstacle to marriage, debutante season has never been so ghastly.
Miss Cecily Harrow has always detested the suffocating rules of high society—the endless teas, the whispered scandals, the relentless pressure to marry. But nothing rankles more than how no one dares speak of the dead… even when they’re waltzing across the ballroom.
The undead have become an accepted—if unsettling—presence in drawing rooms and garden parties alike. Some consider it romantic, even advantageous, to wed a suitor who will never age (or breathe). Meanwhile, young ladies must be practically perfect, prim, and docile to attract a suitor. Cecily considers the hypocrisy revolting. Unfortunately, half her admirers have been six feet under for decades, and her mother insists she smile sweetly through the stench of embalming oils.
But when reanimated gentlemen start turning up truly dead—dismembered and left for the crows—Cecily becomes the prime suspect. Soon, women begin approaching her in secret, longing to join a society she never intended to create: a sisterhood devoted to freedom from both living and undead patriarchy. What begins as a whispered alliance in the moonlit woods becomes something far more dangerous.
Accused of witchcraft, pursued by gossip, and stalked by something far darker than polite society’s secrets, Cecily must unmask a killer before the season ends—or risk joining her suitors in the grave.
Darkly witty and deliciously macabre, Withered Blooms is a Gothic tale of romance, rebellion, and the rot beneath the roses.
A darkly macabre gothic mystery. Release date TBD.
Bury Me
Face Down
Clarabelle Logan grew up on the edge of a cursed forest, drawn to the ruined gates of Blackthorne Castle—a place spoken of only in superstitions and nightmares. Inside, time hangs suspended. The chandeliers still burn. Music still plays. And the master of the house—once a man, now something else—waits for a guest who will never leave.
When Clara's husband plucks a single black rose from the cursed castle grounds, he seals his fate, and hers. When the beast comes to claim its due, Clara is offered up to pay the debt.
At first, the castle feels like a sanctuary, its halls warm and bright against the wilderness beyond. But horrors hide in the shadows, and the longer Clara stays, the more the castle seeps into her. Mirrors whisper her name, walls breathe with a heartbeat she can feel under her skin, and her reflection lags a moment behind, smiling when she does not.
The beast tells her the castle is cursed. The truth is far worse.
The castle is alive—and it is hungry.
As its corruption spreads through her blood, Clara must choose: flee before she loses who she is, or surrender to the dark seduction of a house that promises eternal belonging… at the cost of her humanity.
A tale of ruin, romance, and becoming, Bury Me Face Down is a fever-dream descent into the gothic heart of love, decay, and the beauty that devours.
A twisted dark retelling of Beauty & the Beast. Release date TBD.
