M. P. Kozlowsky – författare

Juniper Berry''s parents are the most beloved actor and actress in the world—but Juniper can''t help but feel they haven''t been quite right lately. And she and her friend Giles are determined to find out why.

On a cold and rainy night, Juniper follows her parents as they sneak out of the house and enter the woods. What she discovers is an underworld filled with contradictions: one that is terrifying and enticing, lorded over by a creature both sinister and seductive, who can sell you all the world''s secrets bound in a balloon. For the first time, Juniper and Giles have a choice to make. And it will be up to them to confront their own fears in order to save the ones who couldn''t.

M.P. Kozlowsky''s debut is a modern-day fairy tale of terror, temptation, and ways in which it is our choices that make us who we are.

Vince Elgin is an orphan, having lost his mother and his father in a fire when he was young, but beyond that, his life hasn''t been much of a fairy tale. With only a senile grandfather he barely knows to call family, Vince was interned in a group home, where he spun fantastical stories and dreamed that his father, whose body was never found, might one day return for him. But it''s been a long time since the fire, a long time since Vince has told himself a story worth believing in.

That''s when a letter arrives, telling Vince his grandfather has passed away. Vince cannot explain it, but he''s convinced that if his father is somehow still alive, he''ll find him at the funeral. He strikes out for the small town of Dyerville carrying only one thing with him: his grandfather''s journal. The journal tells a tale that could not possibly be true: the story of his grandfather''s young life with witches, giants, magical books, and evil spirits. But as Vince reads on and gets closer to Dyerville, fact and fiction begin to intertwine, and Vince finds that his very real adventure may have more in common with his grandfather''s than he ever could have known.

M. P. Kozlowsky, author of Juniper Berry, has crafted a powerfully imaginative novel of the spaces in life where fantasy and reality intersect, and a touching story of the things we give up to recover the things we''ve lost.