LABYRINTH SOCIETY (Middle Grade Contemporary Fantasy)

Twelve year-old Mia Cornell is not a happy camper. Not only has she been passed around the foster care system like the flu, but she was also falsely labeled a thief. Being accused of having criminal tendencies was bad enough, but things go from bad to bizarre when Mia’s sent to the estate of Madeleine Tarpley, the wealthy widow of a famous archaeologist. Mia’s new home comes with three fosters sisters who welcome her with a mix of warmth and resentment. But it’s a strange incident inside the massive backyard garden labyrinth that’s her first clue that something really weird is going on at the Tarpley estate.

Creeped out when she finds an old snapshot of a still-young Mrs. Tarpley, and suspicious about the fate of the previous foster kid who supposedly left—all her stuff’s still in the attic—Mia is determined to find out her new family’s secret. Are they cult, a coven, or a band of serial killers? Hardly. Try a secret society that travels the world through a portal in the labyrinth, hunting down lost and stolen art, artifacts, and the odd OSO (Object of Supernatural Origin).

Mia barely has time to wrap her head around the truth when she’s literally sucked into the Society’s latest job of tracking down a valuable necklace owned by Marie Antoinette. But the mission goes sideways when the necklace is not what it seems, a nemesis from Mrs. Tarpley’s past turns up with sinister intentions, and Mia discovers one of her foster sisters is keeping a dangerous secret. Mia and the girls will have to use their wits, plus a few cool OSO’s filched from the Society’s vault, to stay one step ahead of danger. Will Mia stand by her new siblings or will fear make her cut and run when they need her the most?

Told in the alternating points-of-view of Mia and her three foster sisters, LABYRINTH SOCIETY—think Kiki Strike and the Irregulars meets Warehouse 13—features a multicultural cast of tween girls and is complete at 57,000 words.

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