Adult Horror • 2027
Hunger Pains
When Alex and her twin brother Charlie were fourteen, they disappeared. A month later, they returned with a story no one but their little sister, Verity, believed— a story of a dark world filled with carnivorous shades, and of a man named Grey who took them there. Psychologists called it a shared delusion, their mother called it divine punishment, and their wealthy grandmother called it an opportunity— for boarding school, therapy, and a fresh start away from their fanatical mother. Alex took it. Charlie tried. And Verity was left behind.
Twenty years later, the lives they constructed are falling apart. Alex, a formerly bestselling writer with an addiction to male validation, is drowning in a toxic affair even as she tries desperately to hold everyone together. Charlie, a rising star of the art world, battles hallucinations that claw at the edges of his reality. And Verity drifts through the wreckage of her privilege, giving away her trust fund, busking on the streets, and saying things that scare her siblings – like maybe their mother was right.
Then Grey returns unchanged. This time, he’s after Verity.
When Verity vanishes, Alex knows that her sister is not just missing. She has been taken—back to the place Alex swore never existed. Now, to save her sister, Alex must return to the Other Place, where the most terrifying thing she’ll be forced to face isn’t a creature of nightmare. It’s herself.
YA Fantasy • 2022
Bright Ruined Things
The only life Mae has ever known is on the island, living on the charity of the wealthy Prosper family who control the magic on the island and the spirits who inhabit it. Mae longs for magic of her own and to have a place among the Prosper family, where her best friend, Coco, will see her as an equal, and her crush, Miles, will finally see her. Now that she's eighteen, Mae knows her time with the Prospers may soon come to an end.
But tonight is First Night — when the Prospers and their high-society friends return to the island to celebrate the night Lord Prosper first harnessed the island's magic. When the spirits start inexplicably dying, Mae starts to realize that things aren't what they seem, and Ivo, the reclusive, mysterious heir, may hold all the answers — including a secret about Mae's past that she doesn't remember.
"A deftly-plotted tale about ambition and belonging, Bright Ruined Things takes Shakespeare's The Tempest and brilliantly reimagines its themes of family and love. Cohoe writes with a magic that dazzles and cuts right to the core."
— Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights
YA Historical Fantasy • 2020
A Golden Fury
Thea Hope longs to be an alchemist out of the shadow of her famous mother. The two of them are close to creating the legendary Philosopher's Stone — whose properties include immortality and can turn any metal into gold — but just when the promise of the Stone's riches is in their grasp, Thea's mother destroys the Stone in a sudden fit of violent madness.
While combing through her mother's notes, Thea learns that there's a curse on the Stone that causes anyone who tries to make it to lose their sanity. With the threat of the French Revolution looming, Thea is sent to Oxford for her safety, to live with the father who doesn't know she exists. But in Oxford, there are alchemists after the Stone who don't believe Thea's warning about the curse — instead, they'll stop at nothing to steal Thea's knowledge of how to create it.
"Sharply written with a crackling, compassionately determined heroine, A Golden Fury is a vivid ride through eighteenth-century Europe with darkness and dread creeping at its corners. Utterly enchanting."
— Emily A. Duncan, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Saints"Cohoe transmutes the legend of the Philosopher's Stone into a dark, intoxicating tale of ambition, obsession, and sacrifice. Prepare for a magic that will consume you."
— Rosamund Hodge, New York Times bestselling author of Cruel Beauty