LANDRY PARK

Downton Abbey meets The Selection in this thrilling YA debut.

Madeline Landry is born into a world of influence and luxury, a world of estates and gardens fueled by nuclear power and maintained by a caste of people called the Rootless. When a Gentry girl is attacked, it is the Rootless who are blamed, even though Madeline knows better. As she searches for the truth, she can't escape the rumors of revolution and retribution circulating through the ballrooms, and neither can she escape the city's new golden boy, Captain David Dana, who has secrets of his own. Soon, she finds herself forced to choose between her duty and her desires, her ancestral destiny and her conscience, and her choice will shake the very foundations of the world she was born to rule. Bethany Hagen was born and raised in the Kansas City area where the novel is set. In 2010, she graduated from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor’s in Creative Writing. The inspiration for LANDRY PARK came from her time employed at the local museum, working with photographs of Edwardian mansions side by side with photographs of nuclear-protection suits from the 1950’s. Bethany currently lives in the Kansas City area with her family, where she works as a librarian and spends too much time rearranging her bookshelves.