Amy Danziger Ross
Author of
Jek/Hyde (Harlequin Teen, 2017)
Diary of a Haunting: The Possession (Simon Pulse, 2016)
Diary of a Haunting (Simon Pulse, 2015)
Amy Danziger Ross has an MFA from the University of Idaho and a Bachelor’s in Critical Theory and Anthropology from Brown University. Her work has appeared in The Millions, Carbon Copy Magazine, The Journal of Microliterature, DIY Magazine, Hatch Magazine, and Providence Monthly. She has lived in upstate New York, Providence, Paris, Chicago, Copenhagen, Kyoto and currently resides in Taiwan. She also writes under the pseudonym M. Verano.
Books by Amy
Jek/Hyde (Harlequin Teen, 2017)
Lulu Gutierrez and Jayesh Emerson Kapoor are science nerds, and have been best friends since they were young…or at least they used to be. Lately Jek has been pulling away from Lulu, just as she’s coming to terms with how she really feels about him. Just as she was ready to see if there could be something more between them.
But Lulu’s thoughts are derailed by the arrival of a mysterious new guy showing up at local parties. Hyde is the definition of a bad boy, and everybody knows it…but no one can seem to resist his charms. Girls can’t stay away from him, and guys all want to be him. And even though Lulu’s heart belongs to Jek, she can’t deny his attraction either.
She also knows that’s there’s something not quite right about Hyde. That the rumors of his backwoods parties sound a little more dangerous than what any of her friends are accustom to. And she doesn’t like the fact that Hyde seems to be cozying up to Jek, and that they seem to be intertwined in ways that have Lulu worrying for Jek’s safety.
If Hyde has a dark secret, Lulu is determined to find out what it is, and to help Jek…before it’s too late for the both of them.
Diary of a Haunting: The Possession (Simon Pulse, 2016)
In the tradition of Paranormal Activity and The Exorcist, an ordinary girl with a strange illness that doctors can’t seem to diagnose recounts her experience with the dark and ancient entity that’s making her sick in this chilling diary that features photos and images of what she experienced.
All her life, Laetitia Jones has only wanted to be a star. It’s more than an ambition—somewhere deep inside, she knows that she was born for greatness.
But her path to stardom now seems to be halted by a mysterious, undiagnosed illness that’s taken over her body. Doctors don’t have a clue and most days, she’s stuck at home documenting her strange symptoms—symptoms that start with fevers and chills, but soon escalate to bizarre bodily reactions.
Laetitia’s only escape from her illness is following the news—and the race riots that are moving closer and closer to her neighborhood. But when horrific visions begin to invade her mind, even the media can’t distract her and she begins to wonder—is her illness something biological…or is it something more? Are the voices she hears and the notes she finds in her own handwriting signs of insanity…or signs of something much more sinister and demonic? Or, perhaps, signs of something benevolent…something holy even.
Laetitia has always known she’d be famous…she just didn’t know it would happen this way.
Diary of a Haunting (Simon Pulse, 2015)
When Paige moves from LA to Idaho with her mom and little brother after her parents’ high-profile divorce, she expects to completely hate her new life, and the small town doesn’t disappoint. Worse yet, the drafty old mansion they’ve rented is infested with flies, spiders, and other pests Paige doesn’t want to think about. She chalks it up to her rural surroundings, but it’s harder to ignore the strange things happening around the house, from one can of ravioli becoming a dozen, to unreadable words appearing in the walls. Soon Paige’s little brother begins roaming the house at all hours of the night, and there’s something not right about the downstairs neighbor, who knows a lot more than he’s letting on. Things only get creepier when she learns about the sinister cult that conducted experimental rituals in the house almost a hundred years earlier. The more Paige investigates, and the deeper she digs, the clearer it all becomes: whatever is in the house, whatever is causing all the strange occurrences, has no intention of backing down without a fight. Found in the aftermath, Diary of a Haunting collects the journal entries, letters, and photographs Paige left behind.