An author is transported into the pages of her own fantasy novel and must survive an island curse.
For fans of "The Midnight Library" and "The Chronicles of Narnia," a compelling portal fantasy that readers are calling "a fairy tale for adults who still believe in magic."
What if every book ever written created a world of its own? And what if an author could travel into that world and write the story from the inside out?
When celebrated New York City-based author, Katerina Joyce, finds herself facing a brutal, love-induced case of writer’s block with only three weeks to turn in her next book, she flees Manhattan in search of inspiration on the Big Island of Hawaii. A series of mystical encounters on her first night transports her somewhere entirely unexpected: straight into the world of her own book.
All Kat knows about her story is that her main character, British veterinarian Evie Willcox, wakes up on a magical and (nearly) deserted island with no memory of getting there. Oh, and at the end of the book, Evie Willcox will die. But when Kat wakes up on the same deserted beach in the body of Evie, the journey she faces is much more harrowing than a simple, blank page: Kat must now write her story from the inside out, facing her heart-wrenching past and all her worst fears along the way—not least a blood-thirsty great white shark and that treacherous love triangle she can’t seem to escape.
Can Kat rewrite Evie’s destiny, and perhaps her own as well, as she struggles to uncover the island’s secrets? More importantly, can she find a way to survive the mysterious and perilous world of her own imagining? Or will her own writer’s pen be the killer she ultimately fears?
Story Island explores LGBTQ themes while diving into the emotional depths of life-long friendships and soulmates, the complexities of grief and loss, and the ever-complicated and timeless love of mother-daughter relationships—all interwoven with a splash of island magic and the mysterious currents of time travel.
