Shannon Ives is a flatlander author living in the Green Mountain State.

She writes about wayward women, monsters, and wayward women who are also monsters.

Those Fatal Flowers

Greco-Roman mythology and the mystery of the vanished Roanoke colony collide in this epic adventure filled with sapphic longing and female rage—a debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller, Jennifer Saint, and Natalie Haynes.

“And how is it that such an empty place can feel smothering—as if the grasses wish to reach out and coil their delicate stalks around my wrists, my neck? As if that brilliant blue sky wants nothing more than to drown me in it. It’s still midday, and already I find myself dreading the arrival of night, and with it, all those infinite stars.”