This is the cover reveal for Steven Pajak‘s next novel, Corpse Girl.
Cover art is also done by Steven Pajak.
Here follows a description –
Five years ago, Staci Mae Graves died for six minutes after a car crash that killed her three best friends. Now she manages a bookstore in Chicago, medicating away nightmares and avoiding the hometown that haunts her—until her teenage cousin Zoey vanishes in Cairo, Illinois.
Returning means facing the place where her life ended and somehow began again. When Staci investigates the abandoned house where Zoey was last seen, her senses sharpen in ways that defy explanation. A homeless woman offers a strange medallion, claiming Staci’s death-marked soul makes her uniquely equipped to find the missing teenagers. But each step toward the truth awakens abilities that blur the line between gift and curse.
Cairo isn’t just dying like so many small Midwestern towns—it’s being consumed. As reality thins and nightmares take solid form, Staci discovers her accident was orchestrated by something ancient and ravenous. It wants to finish what it started five years ago, and it’s using Zoey as bait. To save her cousin, Staci must embrace powers that nearly destroyed her once before and face a terrible choice: sacrifice the new life she’s built, or lose Zoey to the darkness that’s always been waiting.
Corpse Girl will be released in December.