I write historical, contemporary, urban fantasy, adventure, and young adult romances. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of that? Later, I moved to Florida where I continued to fantasize about superpowers and monsters, fabricating stories (my mother called it lying) and sharing them with my friends. I invented stories where I could be the princess… or a gifted heroine from another world who kicked bad guy butt to win the heart of a charismatic hero. In the fourth grade (with the help of one very nice teacher) I fought dyslexia for my right to read, like a prince fights a dragon in order to free the princess locked in a tower, and I won.Īfterwards, I read like a fiend. I spent much of my time looking out windows and daydreaming. I struggled with multiple learning disabilities, did not excel in school. Summers were about riding, fishing and make-believe, while winter brought sledding and ice-skating on frozen ponds. The Artisans is a delectably rich, layered and dark YA Southern Gothic inspired by Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont's classic Beauty and the Beast.īorn in Ohio, I lived next to my grandfather’s horse farm until the fourth grade. Is Gideon Maddox the monster the world believes him to be? And can he stand to let the young seamstress see him as he really is? Her handsome young captor is arrogant and infuriating to the nth degree, and Raven can't imagine working for him, let alone sharing the same space for more than five minutes.īut nothing is ever as it seems.
Gideon Maddox agrees, outlining an outrageous demand: Raven must live in his home for a year while she designs for Maddox Industries' clothing line, signing over her creative rights.
So Raven volunteers to take his place and offers to repay the debt in order to keep the only father she's ever known out of jail, or worse.
Instead of making things easier on the high school senior, her stepdad's drinking leads to a run in with the highly reclusive heir to the Maddox family fortune, Gideon Maddox.īut Raven's stepdad's drying out and in no condition to attend the meeting with Maddox. To make ends meet, Raven works after school as a seamstress creating stunning works of fashion that often rival the great names of the day. But after the death of her mother, seventeen-year-old RAVEN WEATHERSBY gives up her dream of becoming a fashion designer, barely surviving life in the South Carolina lowlands.
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