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Paige

Ellery

 

The moment trust becomes a trap.

Tall library shelves filled with old books and a ladder leaning against the stacks.

ABOUT

Sometimes the scariest things are what you let in

Things that should protect you become the source of danger or failure. That’s what I learned growing up, and now, that’s what I write about. Dark, intimate stories for people who know that the scariest things come in through doors you opened yourself.

WORKS

Shadows That Remember

A clawed pale green hand reaches through a small brown cat-flap door at floor level. A bright red bow lies on the wooden floor beneath it.

 

Picture book 

Don't Open The Cat-Flap

Completed · Querying

When a child’s cat starts dragging familiar lost objects through the cat-flap, each one tied with a red bow, he needs to find out who is sending them before the deliveries escalate. But the gift-giver is something in the woods that speaks only through his cat and won’t stop until it gets what it wants. If he can’t make a trade, he’ll lose Pip forever, and the price of keeping him is the one thing he loves most.  

ree-lined walkway at night illuminated by glowing street lamps with benches along the path.

 

 Novel – Psych Thriller

Mirage

In Progress

A woman brutally attacked in Central Park. A closed case. A dangerous man’s collection. To stop him, she must turn his own tactics against him. Before another woman is added to his collection.

Dark foggy forest with tangled trees and fallen branches creating a dense and eerie woodland scene.

 

Picture book

Portabella Shroom

In Progress

Portabella shroom collects broken things…and people. Over time, Portabella becomes broken herself

Illustrations

Drawn from the Dark

Journal

Notes From The Dark

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