A Little Backstory
Casey Dunn began her career writing fantasy and chose to publish under a pen name that would honor her grandmother - an incredible literary talent who has devoted her long life to the care and dreams of others, and a good friend's mother, who left this world too soon. Combining their names, Jadie Jones became a published author, and a way to celebrate both life and motherhood, which is also emblematic of the Hightower Series as a whole.
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When Casey moved into the southern gothic suspense genre, she wanted to keep the brands separate (and her southern Baptist grandmother isn't one for crass language or scandalizing scenes,) so she chose to publish her thriller titles under her own name, as she is a fan of both crass language and scandal.
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COMING THIS SPRING
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Catch your breath. It might be your last . . . A bone-chilling, terrifying story about two sisters and secrets hiding beneath the snow.
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A raging blizzard isn’t enough to keep fourteen-year-old Rose and seven-year-old Lily in their abusive home for another night. But their escape plan goes wrong when Rose disappears and Lily wakes up in the snow-covered woods, terrified and alone. She never sees her sister again.
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Twenty-five years later, Lily is a social worker with a skill for finding missing children – and a deep fear of the cold. When a foster child she works with is found frozen to death in the snow, Lily is forced to confront her past trauma. What happened to Rose, and why did she abandon her sister in the snow? As terrible secrets are finally dug up, the truth takes a bone-chillingly dark turn.
Told in alternating voices of Lily and Rose, this chillingly atmospheric, dark novel of suspense with jaw-dropping twists is perfect for fans of Cold as Hell by Kelley Armstrong, The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld and The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf.
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NEW DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT
A Little Side Project
A vanity-project turned too-cute-not to share! Golly Molly and the Perfect Pony List - a story written to fulfill the promise that Casey made to her children to finally write something she'd actually let them read. Now, they want other kids to read it, too. Casey would like to confirm that rhyming for 30 pages is exponentially harder than getting away with murder.​​ Check out a morning news show clip interviewing Casey and Olivia about the project. ​The hardback edition will be available soon!​ Golly-good news: The Perfect Pony List scored a great review and a "get it" verdict from Kirkus!
