HERE LIES A VENGEFUL BITCH

A knife-sharp, fiercely feminist YA horror with the hammering pulse of Jesse Q. Sutanto's The Obsession and the vicious revenge fantasy of Hannah Capin's Foul Is Fair. In a society that teaches girls to prioritize being nice above all else, protagonist Annie Lane's unapologetic disregard for her reputation is only part of what makes HERE LIES A VENGEFUL BITCH such a rage-fueled gasp of fresh air.

Between a mother who considers her a lost cause, classmates who see her as either a vulgar, crass monstrosity or a hot hookup, school authorities who anticipate her failure with perverse glee, and local men whose misogyny barely hides the fact that they would if they could, sharp-tongued seventeen-year-old Annie Lane has been left to fall through the cracks for most of her life. But she's never been left for dead before - until she wakes up in the woods, disoriented and terrified, only to soon learn that her body has been dumped on a mountain with a legendary reputation for raising the dead.

Dead, but dead set against disappearing, Annie returns to her backwoods hometown, furious and hellbent on vengeance. Sure, there are some complications: she can't stop puking up ectoplasm, she's being hunted by hellhounds who want to drag her back where she belongs, and she might have a crush on this beatnik bad boy psychopomp who gives off more mixed signals than a retro radio.

But the biggest problem of all? She can't remember who killed her. It could've been her ex and his creep posse - or maybe it was her much-too-friendly boss at the diner. Hell, it might've even been her best friend, who apparently skipped town after Annie's murder. All she has to go on are her tequila-fogged memories and her bloodstained leather jacket, but Annie can't stop until she uncovers the truth. Because girls like her don't get answers unless they go hunting for them themselves.

Someone knows the truth. Someone is to blame. Someone has to pay for what happened to Annie Lane.

Inspired by campy cult horror movies and the tragic true stories of missing girls written off as runaways, HERE LIES A VENGEFUL BITCH is at once a propulsive twist on the final girl trope, an exhilarating love letter to "unlikeable" girls everywhere, and a searing indictment of a culture that treats such girls as collateral.