BUCKHANNON — Local author Sasha Hibbs’s latest young adult novel, co-authored with author Christina Hooker, is slated for release in December 2023.

“The Hanging Night,” Book 1 in The Threads of Fate Series, written with Hooker, is scheduled for release with Evernight Teen Publishing on Friday, Dec. 15. The novel will be available for purchase on Amazon and Goodreads.

Below is a summary of this latest publication.

“Does true love ever die? Yes. It does. Again, and again, and again.

Sixteen-year-old Josephine Blair’s world comes crashing down when her mom dies, forcing her to move states away to live with her eccentric aunts in West Virginia. Just when she begins to deal with her loss and settle in, she catches a thief, 16-year-old Caius Duke, stealing from her aunts’ store.

The problem? Caius isn’t just a thief. He’s much more, and they soon discover this isn’t their first meeting. Far from it.

Over the course of the summer, Caius is not only working off his punishment for stealing at Josie’s aunts’ store, but he’s also working against time to discover their origins in the hopes he can save them both from a curse that’s chased them across lifetimes.

A tale of twin flames whose paths collide over and over again, the sacrifices made in the name of a pure and true love, and the consequences of finding yourself on the wrong side of a scorned witch, “The Hanging Night will take you on a journey of an eternal love written in the stars.“

Sasha Hibbs is the author of eight young adult novels and two short stories published by Evernight Teen Publishing, including “The Vulcan Legacies,” “The Boxer and the Butterfly,” Northern Pines” and “A Mad Awakening.

“The Hanging Night” is part of the Summer Crush Anthology — a USA Today recommended romance –the Kissed Anthology, and the He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not YA Dark Anthology slated for release in 2024. Most recently, she was named and awarded Best Author of 2022 in West Virginia Living Magazine. Sasha is a full-time mother and daytime registered nurse who resides in rural West Virginia.

Christina Hooker is the author of “Falling is Like This,” a young adult tale of loving, losing and coping with the tragedies that ensue. When Christina isn’t busy writing her next novel, she has her hands full running her salon—The Hair Apparent—while raising several fur babies in mountainous West Virginia.

To learn more about Christina Hooker, visit her Facebook Author Page or her website. Read more about Sasha Hibbs on her website