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The Bewitching Hour (A Tara Prequel)

Part of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Prequels

Author Ashley Poston
Hardcover
$18.99 US
Disney - RHCB | Random House/Disney
5.71"W x 8.52"H x 1.14"D   | 16 oz | 20 per carton
On sale Aug 01, 2023 | 352 Pages | 9781368075459
Age 12 and up | Grade 7 & Up
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan-favorite and LGBTQIA+ icon Tara Maclay gets the main character treatment in this YA prequel full of '90s nostalgia, mysterious murders, and a star-crossed romance, written by New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Ashley Poston.

Tara Maclay isn’t thrilled to be starting her senior year of high school in a new town. But if she can just keep her head down, then maybe she can make it through this year in Hellborne, Vermont without the town living up to its name.

Of course, her plan falls apart immediately, as dead students start turning up around her, and she’s suddenly voted Most Likely To Have Murdered Them by the rest of the senior class. Oh, and the fellow new girl Tara’s crushing on? Turns out to be a witch-hunter.

. . . So maybe it’s not the worst thing that Tara’s magic is majorly malfunctioning.

As the body count rises, Tara has to overcome her fears, reconnect with her magic, and cast herself in a more central role to save the town—even if it means putting her new relationship at risk.
© Ashley Poston
Ashley Poston is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics, The Seven Year Slip, A Novel Love Story, and Sounds Like Love. She writes full-time from her little grey house and spoils her three cats. When not writing, she bides her time between South Carolina and New York, and all the bookstores between. View titles by Ashley Poston

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan-favorite and LGBTQIA+ icon Tara Maclay gets the main character treatment in this YA prequel full of '90s nostalgia, mysterious murders, and a star-crossed romance, written by New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Ashley Poston.

Tara Maclay isn’t thrilled to be starting her senior year of high school in a new town. But if she can just keep her head down, then maybe she can make it through this year in Hellborne, Vermont without the town living up to its name.

Of course, her plan falls apart immediately, as dead students start turning up around her, and she’s suddenly voted Most Likely To Have Murdered Them by the rest of the senior class. Oh, and the fellow new girl Tara’s crushing on? Turns out to be a witch-hunter.

. . . So maybe it’s not the worst thing that Tara’s magic is majorly malfunctioning.

As the body count rises, Tara has to overcome her fears, reconnect with her magic, and cast herself in a more central role to save the town—even if it means putting her new relationship at risk.

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© Ashley Poston
Ashley Poston is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics, The Seven Year Slip, A Novel Love Story, and Sounds Like Love. She writes full-time from her little grey house and spoils her three cats. When not writing, she bides her time between South Carolina and New York, and all the bookstores between. View titles by Ashley Poston

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