Book Release Party: Lyndsay Faye's Raven

Join us for a conversation with Lyndsay Faye, author of Raven, in conversation with Stephen from Peyton June, author of Monsters We Made and more.

Each ticket includes:

• Admission to the live author conversation

• Access to the post-event meet-and-greet with both authors

• Light snacks and refreshments
• You may also purchase copies of Raven, Monsters We Made, and Bad Creek.
• You may also bring one other book for the authors to sign

About Raven
An orphaned young woman in antebellum Maryland is pulled into a maelstrom of passion, pain, and occult power in this Gothic homage to the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe.

I died a fortnight ago this coming Thursday. It was a terrifically unpleasant experience—being murdered, I mean to say.

Raven Helen Allan has always been haunted by witchcraft. Since the death of her beloved mother, she has soothed herself by speaking words into spells—a proclivity enhanced by time spent with her aunt’s library of occult books. She also finds a self-destructive solace in transmuting the pain in her heart onto her flesh.

After an itinerant childhood spent first with her mother’s traveling theater troupe and then being passed around from relative to relative, Raven is relieved to finally settle down with Aunt Berenice in her Baltimore townhouse—even if her aunt spends most evenings in a laudanum haze. There she finds a long-sought sense of belonging with the family of enslaved workers in her aunt’s household, especially the brilliantly odd youngest daughter Pym. Raven’s infatuation with her friend only grows more intimate as the girls become women together. But when the household is threatened with financial ruin, Raven must set out to earn her own living. 

Taking a job as a paid companion, Raven arrives at the crumbling Moldavia Manor. Her charge is a delicate young invalid named Lenore Legrand who haunts the Gothic structure like a phantom. Living with them is Lenore’s devoted older cousin Trevanion, who shares Raven’s interest in the occult and devotes his days to searching ancient texts for an Elixir of Life that might cure his cousin. Raven finds herself inexorably drawn to both cousins as well as to the secrets hidden in the shadows of Moldavia Manor. Will she find the answers she seeks in Trevanion’s alchemical texts? What is the meaning of glowing green light emitted from the tower windows? And is Raven truly narrating this story from beyond the grave—if so, who murdered her?

Gothic and atmospheric, Raven is an aching tale of loss, freedom, death, and resurrection by the celebrated author of Jane Steele and Dust and Shadow.

About Lyndsay

Lyndsay Faye is the internationally bestselling author of eight critically acclaimed novels and two short story collections. She has been published in fifteen languages, nominated for two Edgar Awards, and received an American Library Association award for Best Historical Novel. A notable writer of Sherlock Holmes pastiches including Dust and Shadow and Observations by Gaslight, she also particularly enjoys upending classical literature, as in Jane Steele, which transforms Jane Eyre into a feminist serial killer. A true New Yorker in the sense that she was born elsewhere, Faye lives in Queens with her husband Nicholas and her cat Prufrock.

About Peyton

Peyton June writes about spooky small towns and the messy queer kids who survive them. When she’s not creating, Peyton enjoys riding her fifty-year-old Schwinn bicycle, collecting antique photographs, and ghost hunting. She lives outside Seattle, Washington. Bad Creek is her debut novel.

Additional Books

Books will be available for purchase at the event while supplies last.  We encourage you to pre-purchase books along with your ticket as stock at the event will be limited and sold on a first come, first serve basis. 

The event details may change. If we change details - location, time, policies, etc. we will notify ticket holders via e-mail. 

Event Details & Policies:

• Tickets are non-refundable, but may be transferred up to 48 hours prior to the event by emailing info@swoon.city

• If you are unable to attend and would like your included book held for pickup, please notify us via email at least 48 hours before the event

Event Attendance & Ticket Package Policy

Tickets are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, please notify Swoon City prior to the start of the event.

Guests who let us know they can't attend will have 14 days following the event to pick up any books included with their ticket in store. 

Guests who do not attend and don’t notify us (no-shows) forfeit books or other items included with their ticket purchase.

Swoon City reserves the right to modify these policies at any time.