Hillary Monahan is an American author, best known for her New York Times-bestselling debut novel MARY: The Summoning. Her work includes young adult, horror, urban fantasy, and romance novels. She has published more than a dozen books. Her other pen names include Thea de Salle and Eva Darrows.
Monahan's first young adult novel, MARY: The Summoning, is the first in a series and about a group of teens who attempt to summon a ghost that turns out to be Bloody Mary and starts to follow them. It was published by Disney-Hyperion in 2014 and hit the New York Times bestseller list, debuting at #2.[4][5] A sequel, MARY: Unleashed, was published in 2015.
Monahan's adult fantasy debut, Snake Eyes, is the third novel in the Gods & Monsters series, whose previous two novels were written by Chuck Wendig and Steven Blackmoore. Snake Eyes is about a Lamia, a snake monster from Greek mythology, who leaves her mother and finds herself in a battle between mythological creatures. It was published by Abaddon in 2016.[2]
Her fifth young adult novel and third standalone, The Hollow Girl, is about a Welsh Romani teen who gruesomely gets revenge on the boy who raped her, using violence and magic. It was published by Delacorte in 2017.[6]
As Eva Darrows
Her first standalone young adult novel, The Awesome was published under the pen name Eva Darrows by Ravenstone in 2015. It's about a seventeen-year-old ghost hunter on a quest to lose her virginity in order to be able to hunt vampires.[7]The Awesome received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.[8]
As Thea de Salle
Monahan's first adult romance series, NOLA Nights, a three-book series starting with The King of Bourbon Street, was published in 2017 by Pocket Star, under the pen name Thea de Salle.
