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BBNYA Spotlight - Wayward Daughter by Alyssa Frace

About BBNYA and the Spotlight Tours

The Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the books that made it to the semi-finals with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title.

BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 16 finalists and one overall winner.

If you want some more information about BBNYA, check out the BBNYA Website https://www.bbnya.com/ or take a peek over on Twitter @BBNYA_Official. BBNYA is brought to you in association with the @Foliosociety (if you love beautiful books, you NEED to check out their website!) and the book blogger support group @The_WriteReads.

Book Details

LENGTH: 333 Pages
GENRE: Fantasy, Mystery
AGE CATEGORY: Young Adult
DATE PUBLISHED: October 13, 2023

Bookshop (Affiliate): https://bookshop.org/a/12882/9798377213826

Indie Story Geek: https://indiestorygeek.com/story/8771

Amazon Link: https://a.co/d/dJ5ppqx (Canada) https://a.co/d/5gjAMVz (USA) https://amzn.eu/d/j9Y8I8E (UK)

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199915411-wayward-daughter

The Story Graph Link: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/93716fd0-66c3-43a2-87a6-11d1934d35ee

Blurb

17-year-old Genesis Belle would do anything to leave the monster hunting world behind–even make a deal with one of the world’s most accomplished hunters: her mother. All she has to do is kill the creature lurking in the shadows of their town before her mom does. If she wins, she can follow her cross-country road trip dreams without slaying monsters on the way, but if she loses, she’ll have to keep working at a hunting outpost masquerading as a dingy diner.

She’s sure this bet is exactly what she needs to finally be able to do whatever she wants. Thanks to the help of the apothecary-in-training, Red, she assumes winning will be easy enough. He’ll help her with the boring part (researching monsters) and she’ll do the important part (killing monsters).

It should be as easy as the pie she serves at the diner, but the further down the rabbit hole she goes, the higher the body count. And she’s pretty sure her mom’s shady monster hunting tactics are to blame. Armed with a broken mermaid artifact, that annoyingly nosy apothecary, and lots of spite, Genesis must traverse the monster hunting world and utilize her skills to win the bet and save the town from the magic lurking in the shadows.


Author Bio

Alyssa Frace is a New York writer who has spent her entire adult life trying to recapture the whimsy of getting lost in the pages of a book by trying to write her own. She uses her love of all things mysterious and otherworldly to weave stories filled with magic, adventure, and a heaping dose of snarky banter. When she’s not sitting in front of her laptop with a word document open, Alyssa can be found enjoying the scenery of the Adirondacks with her family and wrangling her fat cat (a task more challenging than any monster hunting adventure).

You can find her on Instagram and X as @alyssawrotethis


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