12 debut fiction authors of 2022, their portraits arranged in a checker pattern.

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The best debut fiction to read this spring

We End in Ashes

The sequel to the "TikTok Made Me Buy It" must-read, With Fire In Their Blood: a seductive, simmering supernatural YA romance debut set in Italy.

Kat Delacorte was eleven years old when her family moved from the United States to a small town in central Italy. She soon began writing stories about her new friends developing superpowers, and she hasn't looked back since. She graduated with a BA in History from Columbia University, and lives in Venice, Italy.

Kat Delacorte

TikTok Made Me Buy It

A simmering supernatural romance set in the crumbling Italian city of Castello, where mafia clans make the rules, dark magic pulses the streets and the sins of the past threaten to consume the present. . . 
 
As seen on TikTok..... Perfect for lovers of Chloe Gong, Renée Ahdieh and V.E. Schwab 
 
When sixteen-year-old Lilly arrives in Castello, she isn't impressed. 
 
A secluded town in the Italian mountains is not where she saw her last years of high school playing out. 
 
Divided for generations by a brutal clan-family war, the two halves of Castello are kept from destroying each other by the mysterious General, a leader determined to maintain order and 'purity'. . . whatever the cost. 
 
Lilly falls in with the rebellious Liza, brooding Nico and sensitive Christian, and sparks begin to fly. But in a city where love can lead to ruin, Lilly isn't sure she can trust anyone -- not even herself. 
 
And then she accidentally breaks Castello's most important rule: when the General's men come to test your blood, you'd better not be anything more than human... 
 
"Startlingly original . . . Readers will be lured in to this tumultuous world of warring families, forbidden power, and heart-searing romance." 
 
- Lyndall Clipstone, author of Lakesedge and Forestfall

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