Overview

Welcome to Camp Cryptid

As the new Assistant Director of Elkwater Music Camp, Avery Payne has sixteen weeks between her and her Carnegie Mellon dream. Sixteen weeks working at the only human-inhuman band camp in the nation. Just enough time to have her world turned upside down by a curly-haired faun.

Cricket is ready to fight for her woodland home against the Georgia Men who would buy it out from under her. In search of her cousin—the only faun to have integrated with the broader human world—Cricket finds herself stranded at Elkwater Music Camp. The roads are closed, her cousin is gone, and the red-headed Assistant Director can’t seem to leave her alone.

When a mysterious and violent monster threatens the camp, Cricket and Avery band together, discovering the truth behind the land grabs in Green Bank and their undeniable attraction to each other.

Faun Over Me is book one in the Camp Cryptid series. Each book will take place in and around Elkwater Music Camp and feature different relationships among the staff of the camp and the surrounding hills.

Goodreads blurb:

Avery Payne has one goal in this to pursue a Masters of Music at Carnegie Mellon. Years of training and no small amount of talent have led her to her goal, and admission should be a piece of cake. Except, Carnegie is an integrated campus, and Avery has lived a sheltered, human-only life.

To gain the experience she needs, Avery takes a job as the Assistant Director of Elkwater Music Camp—the only human and inhuman band camp in the nation. She has sixteen weeks between her and her Carnegie dream. Sixteen weeks at a band camp in the Monongahela National Forest...sixteen weeks to have her world turned upside down by a curly-haired faun.

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Ever since the faun fell from the fae world to this one, Cricket has begged her family to move among the humans and into a permanent home. When property sales force them from the woods, Cricket vows to bring back her cousin, the only faun to have integrated with the broader human world, and convince the family to do just that.

But a monster lurks in the Monongahela National Forest, chasing her over ridgelines and into the heart of Elkwater Music Camp. Her cousin is gone, the roads are closed, and the red-headed Assistant Director can't seem to leave her alone.

When the monster begins threatening Elkwater Music Camp, Cricket and Avery band together, discovering the truth behind the land grabs in Green Bank and an undeniable attraction to each other.

TRIGGER/CONTENT WARNING:
While the tone of Faun Over Me is lighter in spirit than Witch of the Demesne and Witches of C.R.O.W., the characters in these pages live in a world much like our own. As such, there are references to and instances involving the following topics and potential triggers. Please take care of yourselves.

XO – B.L. Brown

Religious trauma, Evangelicalism, dead-naming, emotionally abusive parent, on-page sexual acts (consensual), conscious and unconscious biases, homophobia, queerphobia, racism

About B.L. Brown

B.L. Brown is a human-wrangling, word-wielding, crock pot aficionado with a passion for fairy tales and folklore. She can be found under a pile of digital literature or begging her friends in academia for their JSTOR logins.

Otherwise, she is in no particular order: lost in the woods, multi-tasking, scanning the shelves at the bottle shop, flicking through a classic cookbook, chasing a kiddo around the neighbor’s yard, or feverishly typing away as she dreams up new horrors and wonders for her characters.

She publishes urban and paranormal fantasy. Her short fiction, The Ten Little Lives of Adelia Mae, appears in the Moms Who Write horror anthology Fireside: Modern Legends and Lore.