The Knight Thieves!

Thrilled to show you the fabulous cover for my next childrens book, a middle grade adventure story that started as a reverse Princess Bride (the girl saves the prince). It’s called The Knight Thieves, and it was SO MUCH FUN to write. Here’s the cover and a description:

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish meets Gail Carson Levine in this charming middle grade fractured fairy tale about an outlaw who teams up with a cursed prince to save the kingdom.

Former fair maiden Rosebud is dread bandit Ruthless Rose, leader of the small but mighty Blackhearts outlaw gang. Ever since the evil Firebrand army torched half their village, the thirteen-year-old daughter of a fallen knight has been living by her own code, picking off evil Firebrand caravans to avenge her village—and her father.

But Rosebud’s honor is put to the test when the Blackhearts mistakenly ambush a carriage smuggling a mysterious passenger: young Prince Fenrik. The shy prince is on the run from the Firebrands…and wearing a hexed wolf mask that can only be removed along with his head. Even worse, the magical object that can free the prince is hidden inside the darkly enchanted Nowhere Wood, where people go in, but they don’t come back out.

Helping people isn’t easy. Can a “bad” girl put aside her own need for revenge to save a good prince…and the entire kingdom?

Sounds and looks pretty good, yes? I think so! It’s exactly the kind of thing I would have wanted to read when I was a kid. The cover illustration is by Petur Antonsson, and the entire cover was designed by Sarah Creech.

Coming July 2024. Pre-order from your favorite bookstore now!

Buy it: | AMAZON | BARNES & NOBLE | BAM | INDIE |