New Author Spotlight: Gretchen McNeil

New Author Spotlight is a series designed to introduce authors with up to 3 books in the different SF/F subgenres.

Today's spotlight shines on Gretchen McNeil! Her books are:

• Possess by Gretchen McNeil (Balzer + Bray)
• Ten by Gretchen McNeil (Balzer + Bray)

Here's the cover copy for Ten:

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Three-day weekend. House party.

White Rock House on Henry Island.
You do not want to miss it.

It was supposed to be the weekend of their lives, three days on Henry Island at an exclusive house party. Best friends Meg and Minnie each have their own reasons for wanting to be there, which involve their school's most eligible bachelor, T. J. Fletcher, and look forward to three glorious days of boys, bonding, and fun-filled luxury.

But what they expect is definitely not what they get, and what starts out as fun turns dark and twisted after the discovery of a DVD with a sinister message: Vengeance is mine.

Suddenly, people are dying, and with a storm raging outside, the teens are cut off from the rest of the world. No electricity, no phones, no internet, and a ferry that isn't scheduled to return for three days. As the deaths become more violent and the teens turn on each other, can Meg find the killer before more people die? Or is the killer closer to her than she could ever imagine?

Check out these other books if you want some creepy serial killer tinged Halloween reading:

• Daemon Hall by Andrew Nance (Square Fish)
• Beyond by Graham McNamee (Wendy Lamb Books)
• The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting (HarperCollins)