The cover art was done by my mother, Susan Kent Berrier, and I am so in love with the way it turned out! She referenced a lot of pictures on my Pinterest board to get a feel for how Ellsie looked in my mind, and I think she totally nailed it! (Don’t you just love that skirt??)

Here’s the back, also…

I had a last minute crisis about what color to make the background… Ever since I started working on this story, I’d always associated it with blue and silver. A lot of the critical scenes in the book take place at night and under the stars.

But then—like, a week before I printed it—I thought, “Hey, what about red?!” and I redid everything with a red background instead. Which, I’m not gonna lie, looked pretty cool, and tied in with the fire. Ultimately, though, I’m happy I stuck with the blue and silver. It just seems to fit the tone of the book better.