We are thrilled to be revealing the cover for Zachary Sergi’s upcoming YA novel This Pact Is Not Ours! Releasing on October 3rd from Tiny Ghost Press, This Pact Is Not Ours is now available for pre-order and to add to your Goodreads!
Read on to discover the cover and synopsis, but first Zachary chats through some of the cover’s inspiration!
“This is absolutely my most personal novel ever, in terms of the main character and the setting–where my family has actually gone every summer. It’s also my first chance to dive directly into psychological horror and juicy teen drama, inspired by late 90s teen dramas. For the cover, we were trying to lean into the full Sarah Michelle Gellar trifecta: Cruel Intentions, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and a dash of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Summertime sadness, splashiness, spookiness, scarring and some serious social angst vibes.” — Zachary Sergi
The summer before college Luca Piccone returns to Copper Cove, the idyllic campsite he and his closest friends have visited every year since they were kids. To Luca, Copper Cove is like the setting of the fantasy movies he loves, a sanctuary, protected from the dangers of the outside world, where nothing goes wrong and everything stays the same.
But this year things are changing.
Desperate to make this summer the best one yet, Luca tries to ignore the freshly torn rifts within his tight friend group, the pangs of unrequited love, the anxiety attacks he thought he’d left back at school, and the shadows at the edge of the forest threatening to break free. Until he learns the terrible truth.
Every generation the children of four families are bound by a pact. A pact designed to keep the camp pristine and the monstrous force lurking beneath the campsite imprisoned. But in order to do this, an unthinkable price must be paid–a price that has soaked the previous generations in blood. Can Luca keep his friends, and his favorite place, from being ripped apart?
By the end of the summer, only one thing is for certain, Copper Cove will never be the same again.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Zachary Sergi is a queer author, known for his Interactive Fiction, including the print Choices novels, Major Detours and So You Wanna Be A Pop Star?, and the digital Heroes Rise, Versus, and Fortune The Fated series. Zachary was raised in Manhattan, studied Creative Writing at Regis High School and the University of Pennsylvania, and now lives in Los Angeles with his husband, where he also writes for television and exclusive “Sergiverse” Series for Tales and Patreon. Zachary’s writing focuses on Young Adult Contemporary & Speculative Fiction (Major Detours, So You Wanna Be a Pop Star, The Heroes Rise Series, Demonique and The HellHunters) and New Adult Science Fiction (The Versus Trilogy, Fortune The Fated, The Representatives, Extras).
