Book 1 of the HIVE Trilogy, coming March 2027

A remote Alpine village. A secretive biotech firm. A deadly coven of witches.

Az is twenty-two, stuck in dead-end jobs, and haunted by hallucinations she fears are connected to her mother’s disappearance eleven years ago. When she sees a woman who looks just like her mother in a brochure for a French biotech company, she leaves London for the Alps to find the truth—and walks into a coven that mixes magic and science for its elite clientele.

In a remote French village, Az finds an ancient castle, a lavish estate, a mysterious company, and her mother—alive, successful, but hiding a terrible secret. Ravenel, a biotech firm with the tagline “Unlocking the Biochemistry of Beauty,” hides a deadly coven that mixes magic and science for its elite clientele.

When Az begins to suspect their methods involve murder—as the list of the missing grows longer—she goes digging. Her mother warns her to keep her identity hidden, insisting the truth will put her in greater danger. But Az has come too far to turn back. She is determined to learn why her mother left her in the forest all those years ago, uncover what chased her in the darkness that night, and what she suspects still stalks her within Ravenel’s walls.

Aimed at readers 18+, Coven is a modern gothic horror novel of fractured identity, predation, and the dark side of the beauty industry—blending witchcraft and biotech. For fans of Seed by Ania Ahlborn, The Ancestor by Danielle Trussoni, and Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House.

Tropes:  the dark side of a glamorous biotech empire · destination thriller in a remote Alpine village · hidden history and forbidden knowledge · an anti-heroine who won’t stop digging.