The Book of Briars

"No one remembered the books but her."

Alistair Mead only remembers one thing from the year she went missing as a child: A series of books that don't exist.

When she stumbles on a clue that proves the books were real but somehow erased from existence, Alistair is drawn into an ancient literary underworld whose members believe she might be the key to unraveling the books, and the altered history of the world.

Ben Kriminger hasn't written in a year.

Traumatized by the fanatical reaction to his ...