Extasia

**One of BuzzFeed's Great LGBTQ+ YA novels to Warm up Your Winter * A Kid's Feb/March IndieNext pick**

From New York Times bestselling author Claire Legrand comes a new, bone-chilling YA horror novel about a girl who joins a coven to root out a vicious evil that’s stalking her village. Perfect for fans of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Grace Year.

Her name is unimportant.

All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints of Haven. The elders will mark her and place the red hood on her head. With her sisters, she will stand against the evil power that lives beneath the black mountain—an evil which has already killed nine of her village’s men.

She will tell no one of the white-eyed beasts that follow her. Or the faceless gray women tall as houses. Or the girls she saw kissing in the elm grove.

Today she will be a saint of Haven. She will rid her family of her mother’s shame at last and save her people from destruction. She is not afraid. Are you?

This searing and lyrically written novel by the critically acclaimed author of Sawkill Girls beckons readers to follow its fierce heroine into a world filled with secrets and blood—where the truth is buried in lies and a devastating power waits, seething, for someone brave enough to use it.

• A Coven of Saints: In the village of Haven, four girls are chosen as holy saints. But among the pious, a secret coven of witches takes root, bound by a power the elders would see them burn for.
• Dystopian Fantasy: In the shadow of a black mountain, the last vestiges of humanity cling to a repressive faith, believing they are the only survivors of The World That Once Was.
• A Brutal Patriarchy: To save her people, she must become a holy vessel for their sins, an offering to the vicious elders who rule their lives and condemned her mother to a terrible fate.
• Forbidden Power: She alone sees the white-eyed beasts and faceless women that stalk the village. Is it her mother’s madness, or a devastating ability waiting to be unleashed?