Cover Reveal: Magical Girl Blues by Russell Isler
Blurb:
Some things are worse than death… or high school.
Fourteen-year-old Xenia Findlay survived the crash that claimed her parents and her best friend Bethany. Moving to Porter Valley to live with her great aunt should have been the perfect opportunity to heal. Instead of the peace and quiet she so desperately needs, she’s plagued by terrible headaches… and hallucinatory visits from her dead friend.
Worse, the students of Porter Valley High are disappearing. As, one by one, the missing students join Bethany in Xenia’s visions she begins to suspect that what she sees is real. If that’s true, then everything she thought she knew—about the world, about death, and about herself—is wrong. Magic is real. Ghosts exist. And a monster lurks in the shadows of her idyllic new home.
The bodies are piling up and it won’t be long before the ghastly force preying upon Porter Valley turns its eyes upon her. If Xenia can unlock the power she’s discovered, she might just save herself, her town… and her very soul.
Author: Russell Isler
Book Title: Magical Girl Blues
Cover Artist: Damonza
Page Count: 470
Publisher: Bottled Monster Press
Genre: Urban Fantasy (with horror elements)
Available Formats: eBook, Paperback
Trigger Warnings: violence, mind control, death of parents, death of minors
Additional Details: Magical Girl Blues is the second book of the Clandestine Series.
Author Bio:
Russell Isler was born in Champaign, Illinois. As a child, his fate was sealed the evening his parents took him to see Star Wars. Practically obsessed with spaceships, robots and dragons for his entire life, he pursued a career in animation. After a couple decades jumping between the video game and commercial television VFX fields he stumbled into a new group of friends, who went on to create the award winning Adventures of the League of S.T.E.A.M. web-series. In addition to becoming head of VFX for the League, Russell also acted in several of the episodes. The League also gave him his first taste of writing. His writing on the series finale won “Best Screenplay” in the 2017 Dublin Web Festival. By then he realized that he’d had so much fun writing those screenplays that he should probably write down that book idea that had been living in the back of his head.
