This is not one of those comforting novels where the characters team up to battle the threat together. This is the one where they are alone and terrified… and then, when ready, she comes for them.

Lucy was dead: to begin with. Burned to conceal his crime. Ashes dumped. Gone forever. No-one cared.
Resurrected. Hungry for revenge. So very hungry…

Floating Hair is a bleak, brutal, and unsettling horror novel which includes doomed romances.

Okay, so you have clicked on “Read more” and want to know further details about my novel:

Floating Hair is a gothic horror novel, with a female perspective, set in north-eastern United States.

David, grieving for his lost wife, returns to Malsham: finding new love, and a town filled with romantic, sexual, and criminal lives.

And some bad men. Especially one…

In 1692, Lucy was burned as a witch to conceal his crime: the ravaging fire destroying every aspect of her identity. In the centuries that follow, no-one is held responsible. But now she is given a chance of retribution…

On a cold October night, there is a light in the sky. The population of Malsham watches its blazing progress, before it crashes into the lake. In that moment before impact, some become psychically bound: their lives forever linked.

The explosion resurrects Lucy as a relentless fire vampire. Initially unable to leave the waters, she births small dragons which feed upon those who will not be missed: the homeless, the friendless, the outsiders… She gains sustenance from their endeavours.

Rain deluges the region. Hauling herself from the lake, the rainwater coats her skin: churning from transparent into disparate dark colours. Allowing her to hunt.

Then, when she is strong enough, she summons the fearsome winter and…

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Trigger warning: This book features dragons. If you survived the burning of King’s Landing, please give this one a miss…

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In response to some of the reviews: The main theme of Floating Hair is isolation. All of the main characters are isolated: emotionally and/or socially. They live in a small town in the mountains, so easily cut off from the outside world. Each has their own storyline, with some overlap, but the overarching plot is Lucy’s origin story.

And, yes, this is not one of those comforting novels where the characters team up to battle the threat together. This is the one where they are alone and terrified… and then, when ready, she comes for them.