Elizabeth A. Drysdale
State: Utah
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Genres: Fantasy
Audiences: Young Adult
Books by Elizabeth A. Drysdale
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Dust of Bargains
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Young Adult
Tags: Dark Fantasy, Romantasy
Each night, Grace is pulled into the glittering, vicious realm of the fairies.
A world of cruel beauty and ancient magic, where humans are playthings and blood rules.
Desperate to escape, Grace must navigate twisted bargains, stolen girls, and a court ruled by power and desire.
But the deeper she goes, the more entangled she becomes —in fairy games, in deadly secrets, and in the eyes of a fairy boy who may want to save her …or use her for his own ends.
In Fairyland, love is a trap and blood is the price.
Dust of Bargains
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Burden of the Banished
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Young Adult
Banished to the sea, Mariel is content to live among the Seafolk—until a clue to her missing brother drags her onto forbidden shores where humans are prey. To survive Fae courts and find the truth, she strikes a fraught alliance with a wary Fae captain and slips into a rebellion she never meant to join. As the stakes surge in book two—delegations, seabeasts, and a fragile peace on the brink—Mariel must balance loyalty to family with a slow-burn pull toward her unlikely ally, choosing between the safety of exile and the peril of becoming the bridge between worlds.
The Trident's Reckoning
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Young Adult
When 17-year-old Avi learns the memories she treasures were engineered by her missing mother, she’s dragged into a covert war between a submerged magical kingdom and a ruthless organization hunting a stolen artifact—the Trident. A perilous dive to the sunken city of Neopolis exposes betrayals that cut to the bone, and when the Trident bonds to her, power becomes both weapon and wound. Hunted across oceans to the backstreets of the Philippines, Avi must master emotion-fueled magic, choose her allies, and decide whether she’ll be hero, weapon, or the spark that burns it all down.
Losing Neopolis
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Veins of Darkness
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Young Adult
Tags: Dark Fantasy, Romantasy
Cora has always lived under the shadow of an ominous fate, knowing that one day she would be traded away to an uncertain destiny.
To her astonishment, this fate leads her to the forbidding depths of a dark, ancient castle, where secrets and shadows hide in every corner. Within these walls, she meets Aidoneus, a mysterious man with a past as enigmatic as the castle itself.
Drawn to him despite the darkness, Cora finds herself entangled in a forbidden romance.
However, their budding relationship is soon disrupted by the arrival of Aidoneus’s enigmatic brother, Canaean, who arrives with claims of his own. As the castle’s hidden truths begin to unravel, Cora's world is thrown into turmoil when Aidoneus makes a dangerous trade that jeopardizes his life.
Determined to save the man she loves, Cora embarks on a perilous journey to uncover the truth and find a way to sacrifice herself in Aidoneus’ place.
Curse of the Forgotten
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Young Adult
Tags: Fairytale Retelling, Romantasy
IN THIS EXCITING RETELLING OF BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD MEETS A MAGICAL UNDERWORLD— WITH DIRE CONSEQUENCES!
Wren wants to escape her new life in Nowheresville with a mom who didn’t want her until it was convenient. She finds gold in a cavern, but instead of using the gold to buy a ticket back to her beloved New York City, she becomes lost in the cavern and stumbles on an underground castle.
As if being stuck in the castle isn’t bad enough, Wren is accosted by an unhappy, ill-tempered beast. She quickly learns that in order to gain her freedom, she must do the impossible—LEARN TO LOVE HIM!
Curse of the Forgotten
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Out of Time
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Young Adult
Tags: Historical Fantasy
How far are you willing to go to find out how strong you really are and what it truly means to love someone?
Soph, a third-generation witch, has only one magical gift to her name-the ability to travel through time.
Traveling through time is not as exciting as everyone thinks. The thought of going back in time hundreds of years scares Soph to death, but her family needs her to do it to break a centuries-old curse. If she does not succeed, the outcome means death for her and her entire family. The problem is that she's not accurate in where she ends up.
Coerced into attempting what Soph believes is impossible, the young witch learns that she must save the life of the son of the man who cursed her family. The curse cannot be broken and her family cannot be spared in any other way. To make things worse, she must endure shipwreck and is accused of witchcraft in seventeenth century New England, a time when witches often found their way to the end of the noose.
If she can't save the man she's searching for in time, she risks getting stuck in the past with the curse firmly in place. Her success means breaking the curse and freeing her family to find true love. But her journey to the past brings her closer to hidden fears than she ever imagined!