May 2024 "Liar, Liar" Full Box

💋 Liar, Liar 💋

💋 Our Trad book is Flawless Girls by beloved author Anna-Marie McLemore, a story of a left-behind sister desperate searching for answers in a boarding school that is definitely what it seems.

FG AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: YA dark academia urban fantasy fever dream (skews older)
REP: sapphic intersex Latina mc, sapphic gender-nonconforming li, various white sapphic scs
LENGTH: 304 pgs

SPECIAL FEATURES:
- New fully-redesigned dust jacket
- Author letter
- Signed bookplates

SUMMARY: The Soler sisters are infamous in polite society—brazen, rebellious, and raised by their fashionable grandmother who couldn’t care less about which fork goes where. But their grandmother also knows the standards that 2 Latina young ladies will be held to, so she secures them two coveted places at the Alarie House, a prominent finishing school that turns out ladies and socialites...

💋 Our Indie spotlight is Earthflown by Frances Wren, a twisting, magical thriller that sets up US against THEM (the rich).

EF AT-A-GLANCE:
GENRE: Adult futuristic whirlwind with a side of drama
REP: (from author) “We'd like the emphasis to be that both Litarnes and I are queer creators of colour, and many aspects of the rep is lived experience.”
Gay male mc w/depression + lower melanin, Ace-spectrum male mc w/lower melanin, Maori male mc w/high melanin, South-east Asian male sc w/moderate melanin, Bisexual & sapphic, scs (including South-east Asian) w/moderate + lower melanin
LENGTH: 467 pgs

SPECIAL FEATURES:
- New fully-redesigned dust jacket by @litarnes
- Art + foiled hard case by @Rosdottir
- art endpapers by @litarnes
- Author letter
- Signed bookplates by @litarnes and @francesthewren
- Extra content
- Full-color art gallery in back

SUMMARY: When Ethan saves the life of a firestarter, it's nothing unusual. But his patient turns out to be Corinna Arden, heiress to a pharmaceutical empire controlling Britain's water supply. Her twin, Javier, is a man who (a) starts sending Ethan flowers at work, (b) seems terrified of a secret, and (c) has the cheekbones and earnestness to make up for both...