Shutter by Courtney Alameda is a thrilling horror story laced with an irresistible romance. Now pursued as a renegade agent by her monster-hunting father, Leonard Helsing, she must track and destroy an entity more powerful than anything she's faced before. As the ghostly chains spread through their bodies, Micheline learns that if she doesn't exorcise her entity in seven days or less, she and her friends will die. When a routine ghost hunt goes awry, Micheline and the boys are infected with a curse known as a soulchain. She's aided by her crew: Oliver, a techno-whiz and the boy who developed her camera's technology Jude, who can predict death and Ryder, the boy Micheline has known and loved forever. With an analog SLR camera as her best weapon, Micheline exorcises ghosts by capturing their spiritual energy on film.

As one of the last descendants of the Van Helsing lineage, she has trained since childhood to destroy monsters both corporeal and spiritual: the corporeal undead go down by the bullet, the spiritual undead by the lens. From Courtney Alameda, the author of Shutter, this thrilling, sci-fi horror and space adventure will be sure to stay with readers long after the last pages. Publication is scheduled for fall 2016, with the second book to follow in fall 2017. The first, Pitch Dark, is set against a future of marauding space scavengers and deadly aliens who kill with sound. Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat-a girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. Congrats Courtney From Publishers Weekly: Liz Szabla at Feiwel and Friends has bought the next two YA novels by Shutter author Courtney Alameda.

Lock, stock, and lens, she's in for one hell of a week.

Pitch Dark by Courtney Alameda