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Fans of For the Throne and Vespertine will love this dark fairy-tale retelling of the Irish fable of ‘The Snow, The Crow, and the Blood,’ about a desperate young queen who makes a dangerous alliance with the dangerous lord of death in order to protect the one she loves, even if it means damning herself.Christy Healy is the author of the adult fantasy novels, Unbound and Unseen, and their upcoming companion novel, Undying (2026). She has been a lifelong reader and writer, weaving stories of her own into the myths and tales of the Celtic, Indo-European, and Greco-Roman worlds that she has loved for so long. She lives in North Carolina with her children, her dog, and her husband. Join us as we unpack everything in her thrilling and facinating new release by Christy at 6:30pm on Friday August 29th.
"Almost nine years ago, I sat sleepless through the worst night of my life. It's not a night that I choose to relive very often: my then one-year-old daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, a disease in which, for reasons that are still unclear, the pancreas stops producing insulin, and in turn the body goes into DKA (diabetic ketoacidosis). She was so little when she was diagnosed that it was hard to recognize the signs of her body shutting down – increased thirst and urination, lethargy, weight loss, etc. When we finally realized how very sick she was and rushed her to the hospital, her blood sugar was dangerously high.
We almost lost her.
I remember sitting by her bed throughout that long, dark night, beside myself with fear and grief and so much guilt – I’m her mother, I kept thinking, I should have known, I should have stopped this, I should have saved her – silently begging someone, anyone to help my girl, be it god, devil or both, I didn't care. Very Faustian, I know, but I was ready to pay whatever price asked of me to keep her safe.
That’s when it occurred to me – the idea for this book, or at least the fundamental query of it. How far, exactly, would a mother be willing to go for her child? Would she watch cities burn and kingdoms fall without batting an eye, so long as her child was kept safe and warm? What monsters would we become, as mothers, in defense of these beautiful, bright creations which we have born from our bodies? Would we even doom ourselves?
Yes, I thought. We would – a thousand times yes, we would, even if it meant our own damnation."
Christy will delve into all of these feeling and how these dark moments helped her create her highly anticipated new release, Unseen.
Content Warnings: Unseen is an adult fantasy novel that deals with mature themes and issues, including -- frequent depictions of death/loss of loved one; violence and descriptions of blood; chronic illness of child/threatened death of a child; discussions of grief and depression.
Keep up with Christy on her social media accounts:
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/christyhealywrites/
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TikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@christyhealywrites?lang=en
Paid tickets will include a signed copy of Unseen and registration to attend the evening's event.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
248 N. Main Street, Mooresville, NC, United States, North Carolina 28115
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