Some songs are warnings.
Some girls are remembered in whispers.
And some stories refuse to fade—because they were never truly finished.
In Hemridge, fae and mortals once lived side by side.
Then came the famine. The sickness. The fear.
The fae became strange. Dangerous. Unwelcome.
Seventeen-year-old Blue couldn’t care less.
Raised by Margie, a woman who once loved a faerie and paid the price, Blue has spent her life barefoot and fearless in the Appalachian mountains—and that suits her just fine.
The townsfolk want nothing to do with her? Perfect. The feeling is mutual.
But when Margie is called back to town to care for her aging mother, Blue sets her jaw and insists on going with her.
She’ll have to hide her magic. Cover her pointed ears.
Letting Margie go down the mountain alone would be cowardly—and Blue is no coward.
Most of Hemridge is exactly as awful as she expected.
Especially her next-door neighbor, Evie.
Awkward, observant, soft-spoken Evie—who watches too closely, asks too many questions, and scrunches her nose whenever Blue does something strange…
a maddening habit Blue tries not to find endearing.
What begins as irritation shifts into something softer. Then deeper. Then forbidden.
Because in Hemridge, girls like Blue aren’t allowed to love openly.
As summer deepens and secrets unravel, Blue faces an impossible choice:
Stay and vanish into a life of pretending.
Run, and become a cautionary tale.
Or follow a legend only half-believed—
one that speaks of bridges between worlds, and magic that remembers its own.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Some girls are remembered in whispers.
And some stories refuse to fade—because they were never truly finished.
In Hemridge, fae and mortals once lived side by side.
Then came the famine. The sickness. The fear.
The fae became strange. Dangerous. Unwelcome.
Seventeen-year-old Blue couldn’t care less.
Raised by Margie, a woman who once loved a faerie and paid the price, Blue has spent her life barefoot and fearless in the Appalachian mountains—and that suits her just fine.
The townsfolk want nothing to do with her? Perfect. The feeling is mutual.
But when Margie is called back to town to care for her aging mother, Blue sets her jaw and insists on going with her.
She’ll have to hide her magic. Cover her pointed ears.
Letting Margie go down the mountain alone would be cowardly—and Blue is no coward.
Most of Hemridge is exactly as awful as she expected.
Especially her next-door neighbor, Evie.
Awkward, observant, soft-spoken Evie—who watches too closely, asks too many questions, and scrunches her nose whenever Blue does something strange…
a maddening habit Blue tries not to find endearing.
What begins as irritation shifts into something softer. Then deeper. Then forbidden.
Because in Hemridge, girls like Blue aren’t allowed to love openly.
As summer deepens and secrets unravel, Blue faces an impossible choice:
Stay and vanish into a life of pretending.
Run, and become a cautionary tale.
Or follow a legend only half-believed—
one that speaks of bridges between worlds, and magic that remembers its own.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Used availability for Celeste Sutton's The Ballad of Baby Blue