Can the Tigger change her stripes?

The truth is many of you have seen this before, but somehow I haven't *blogged* about it, so I'm doing a COVER REVEAL today! Muahahahah!

I would like to introduce you to the cover art for BONE & BLOOD, my upcoming retelling of the fairy tale Snow White, Rose Red. Dun dun dunnnnnnn!!!!!



LET ME TELL YOU THE STORY OF THIS COVER ART. :D

Cover designer Ravven, whose work I absolutely adore, did this as a pre-made cover. I saw it about 18 months ago now and I went OH. MY. GOD. I KNOW WHAT THIS COVER WANTS AS A STORY!

"BUT NO," I said to myself. "YOU ALREADY HAVE SO MANY PREMADE COVERS YOU HAVEN'T WRITTEN STORIES FOR! BE BRAVE, CATIE. STEP AWAY FROM THE COVER ART."

"but snow white, rose red," it whispered to me.

"AWAY, TEMPTATION!" I cried. "AWAY! SOMEONE ELSE WILL BUY THIS MAGNIFICENT COVER AND DO SOMETHING COOL WITH IT!"

"but snow white, rose red," it whispered to me.

I was, however, very brave, and didn't buy it.

So it haunted me for weeks. WEEKS. Until I went back and looked and it hadn't been bought yet and I was like 'OKAY FINE I UNDERSTAND A SIGN FROM THE UNIVERSE WHEN I SEE ONE!'

And I bought it, because I love the Snow White, Rose Red fairy tale almost as much as I love Beauty and the Beast (and it is, of course, in the same vein at BatB!), and I knew exactly how it would tie into my Beauty and the Beast book, ROSES IN AMBER, and...it was fate, honestly. It was just fate. And I'm very excited about the book, which I think is a particularly juicy rendition of SWRR, so I'm looking forward to getting it out to people in just three months!

There is a story of a widow woman and her two daughters, Snow White and Rose Red, who were the most perfect and darling little girls who had ever lived.

This is not—quite—that story.

Wise women do not bargain with fair folk, but there is wisdom, and then there is desire. Born of dark magic to a widow willing to make any pact to become a mother, Chloe and Yara live in a borderland between what is real in the World, and what is not. Their gifts—to hunt, to nurture, to craft and to kill—are granted by the woodland they cannot pass beyond...until the price of their birth is called due, and the sisters are separated, one to be a queen, and the other, a soldier.

But as the untold dangers of power weave threads into their hearts, threatening corruption and the destruction of their home, it is not the help of a prince, or true love’s kiss that will defeat a malevolent force, but the bond of two sisters whose bone and blood foretell a future that no evil could anticipate.

BONE & BLOOD will be out on March 12, 2026! Preorder now! :D

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