ALT Title: It Goes Against Nature. Tagline: Something monstrous is growing, and it needs to be fed. Botanical horromance, 75,000 words, by Caroline Baker.
ALT Pitch: Aspiring gardener Forrest accepts a live-in position at an abandoned estate, tasked with restoring the overgrown grounds before the mysterious owner returns. But rival gardener Wesley has also been offered the spot. As they work alongside and against each other, the plants are decaying, the manor wants to uproot them, and a swarm of lanternflies threatens to devour them. Worst of all, Wesley is worming his way into Forrest’s heart. When the festering rot can no longer be contained, they must confront the insatiable horror in the greenhouse before the garden consumes them both.
ALT Comps and tropes: Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin, with tropes of sentient plant and workplace romance; You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White, with tropes of parasites and body horror; Hazelthorn by C.G. Drews, with tropes of decrepit manor and enemies to lovers.
ALT Moodboard of nature and body parts.
ALT This series would be marketed to women in their 20s who are fans of Lor's revenge arc in Nisha J. Tuli's Artefacts of Ouranos, the enemies-to-lovers in Sara Flanagan's Wish, crave the emotional depth of Raven Kennedy's Plated Prisoner series, and love the easily accessible narration of Ali Hazelwood's Bride.
ALT Lauren Wisehart has a Bachelor's in science from the Ohio State University and a masters in science from Case Western Reserve University. She self published a book about her medical journey and has discovered her love of writing and weaving words. She's had 3 brain surgeries and is now disabled so contact via email is preferred due to vocal issues. She has a platform of 56,000 on TikTok.
ALT The forced-proximity and touch her/him and die element in Callie Hart's QUICKSILVER (Forever, August 2025), mixed with the feisty FMC in Nisha J. Tuli's TRIALS OF THE SUN QUEEN (Forever, September 2023), combined with the morally-gray characters of Raven Kennedy's GLINT (Bloom, April 2024), deadly trials of and enemies-to-lovers of Carissa Broadbent's SERPENT AND THE WINGS OF NIGHT (Bramble, December 2023), and the fated mates with betrayal in Sara Flanagan's WISH (Sara Flanagan Books, October 2024).
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ALT can i convince you to read my dark academia, eat the rich, fantasy horror work-in-progress WE HARVEST THE CARNAGE in three slides?
ALT FOR FANS OF NINTH HOUSE AND IF WE WERE VILLAINS: a harvard freshman joins a club of pre-meds to harvest the organs of the elite with body magic, hunting down the billionaire who killed his father. but when prolonged use of the magic leads to demonia, he'll have to decide if vengeance is worth losing his humanity
ALT WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT: dark academia x body horror x STEM; south asian rep x bi4bi; vengeance, moral ambiguity, and guts galore
ALT several snippets of the book here - too many characters for alt text but please let me know if you'd like me to send you anything here separately!
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ALT Pink background with a woman in the centre and blocks of text on either side
ALT Pink toned background with flowers and a butterfly. A photo of a blonde woman on the left facing away, with four photos of book covers, and text lists on the left.
ALT A pink toned background of a country field, and chunks of white text explaining elements about the author. Pictures of book covers in the middle, and a photo of a woman in the right bottom corner.
