Novels
Atlas of Unknowable Things
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High in the Rocky Mountains on a secluded campus, sits Hildegard College, a celebrated institution known for its scientific innovation and its sprawling, botanical gardens. Historian Robin Quain has been awarded a residency to examine Hildegard’s impressive collection of ancient manuscripts, but she has a secret. She’s actually on the hunt for an artifact—one she must find before her former best friend turned professional rival gets his hands on it first.
But Hildegard has secrets of its own. Strange sounds echo across the alpine lake, lights flicker through the pines, and the faculty seem more like Jazz-age glitterati than academics. And then there’s the professor who holds the key to Robin’s research. She vanished suddenly last spring. What exactly did she do at the college, and why does no one want to talk about her?
As Robin searches for answers, an unknown source sends her a series of cryptic messages that makes her question whether she’s the one doing the hunting, or whether someone is hunting her. Drawing on historical, botanical, and occult research, and steeped in the gothic tradition, Atlas of Unknowable Things considers what it means to search for meaning in the scientific, only to come face to face with the sublime.
Praise for Atlas of Unknowable Things:
"Atlas of Unknowable Things is smart. Extremely smart, carefully plotted and well-researched. And while this horror novel share DNA with Dan Brown-esque conspiracy thrillers, author McCormick Templeman is better. Much better." - BookPage
"Smart, twisty, and delightfully creepy."
― Jay Kristoff, New York Times bestselling author
"A dazzling novel of illusion, clever and eerie, whipsmart in its execution. I devoured this puzzle-box of a novel and will read whatever McCormick Templeman writes next."
― Brittany Cavallaro, New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Charlotte
"Atlas of Unknowable Things is one of those rare novels with the power to adjust your grip on reality. Reading it feels like being in an escape room with a (not-racist) Lovecraft while sipping cocktails made of rare and marvelous herbs."
― Camille DeAngelis, Alex Award-winning author of Bones & All
"Atlas of Unknowable Things sent me down a dark, twisting rabbit hole while the author secretly reoriented my brain chemistry to only desire more of this book. When I wasn't reading it, I was thinking about it―Wildly addictive, terrifying, and smart as hell."
― Sadie Hartmann, Bram Stoker Awards® winning author of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered
The Glass Casket
From Delacorte / Penguin Random House
Some secrets don’t stay buried…
Death hasn’t visited Rowan Rose since it took her mother when Rowan was only a little girl. But that changes one bleak morning, when five horses and their riders thunder into her village and through the forest, disappearing into the hills. Days later, the riders’ bodies are found, and though no one can say for certain what happened in their final hours, their remains prove that it must have been brutal.
Rowan’s village was once a tranquil place, but things are different now. Something followed the riders’ path back down from the hills, through the forest, and into the village, And beast or man, it has brough death to Rowan’s door once again.
Only this time, its appetite is insatiable.
★ Starred review – Kirkus
★ Starred review – BCCB
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"With stylish prose, richly developed characters and well-realized worldbuilding, Templeman plumbs archetypes of folklore to create a compelling blend of mythic elements and realistic teen experience."
-Kirkus Reviews
The Little Woods
From Schwartz and Wade / Penguin Random House
People say the woods behind St. Bede’s Academy are haunted, even cursed. So far, three girls have gone missing from the school without a trace. But can a person really just disappear?
When Cally Wood starts at St. Bede’s academy halfway through the year, she’s suddenly thrust into a world of privilege and prestige and in no time flat, she learns to navigate the complex social world of the upper echelon. But amid the illicit romances and weekend-long parties, Cally discovers that brilliant but troubled girl named Iris recently disappeared from St. Bede’s. And Iris wasn’t the first girl to disappear from St. Bede’s. Ten years ago, Cally’s sister was visiting a friend at the school when both girls vanished from their beds.
As Cally tries to unravel the mystery surrounding Iris—one she can’t help linking to her own sister’s disappearance—she discovers that beneath the surface of the elite school and its perfect students lies a web of secrets where rumors are indistinguishable from truth and it seems everyone has something to hide.
★ Starred review – BCCB
“Templeman is a talent to watch.”
– Daniel Kraus, Booklist