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Mica Merrill Rice is a biracial Haitian-American thriller author; crafting stories through the grey areas, seeing the world between Black and white. Her stories are emotionally charged and explore complicated women pushed to their breaking point. She believes a scorned woman is the most frightening creature to roam the earth.

Her writing began with notebooks of dark poetry, scribbled through years of teenage angst, depression, and the ache of wanting to belong. The darkness she wrote through back then still pulses through her work now. Older. Sharper. And far more dangerous...

A lifelong summer resident of the Hudson Valley's haunted woods, Mica now pens her novels from a dimly lit, coffee-fueled cave in Florida, often with Philip Glass echoing in the background. She's a wife, a boy-mom, dog-mom to Denver, and proud Nona to an outrageously spoiled grand-cat named Oliver. When she's not writing, she's reading obsessively, wandering new places, or behind the mic for her podcast.

And when she travels, she's always taking notes because you never know where pain can become power on the page.

You can find her on socials at micamriceauthor or sign up for her newsletter to keep up-to-date with new releases, ARC opportunities, and sneak peeks.

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Blending the atmospheric dread of Stacy Willingham and Gillian Flynn with the sunlit, ritualistic horror of Midsommar, What the Chrysalis Keeps is a harrowing psychological thriller that explores the dark side of sisterhood and the price of power.

Behind the name, beyond the gates, the blood on their hands is the same.

Hiding behind the name Red, Imogen works at an underground fight club at night and a condemned house by day, until she finds herself at the center of another murder.

An invitation to Swallowtail promises her safety in a diverse sisterhood, at a secluded estate miles away from anywhere. But behind the gilded gates, lush landscapes, and manicured smiles, is Sasha, a woman who has turned her own scars into a crown.

Two broken women. Two timelines. One sun-drenched descent into darkness. What becomes of women when pain is the only power? In Swallowtail, the transformation has already begun.

While Imogen seeks to bury her past, echoes of another woman emerge from a decade prior—one who learns that in this predator vs. prey world, the only way to survive is to become the most dangerous woman in the room. But after one sister goes missing, and another turns up dead, all eyes point back to Imogen. In her queendom, Sasha sees individuality as a liability, where one mistake will burn it all down, and Imogen must be punished.

Imogen has only one rule for herself: Don’t Tell and Run Like Hell. But in Swallowtail, there is nowhere to run, and the woman in power is watching, waiting for the one who will betray her.

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Behind the name, beyond the gates, the blood on their hands is the same.

Hiding behind the name Red, Imogen works at an underground fight club at night and a condemned house by day, until she finds herself at the center of another murder.

Two broken women. Two timelines. One sun-drenched descent into darkness. What becomes of women when pain is the only power? In Swallowtail, the transformation has already begun.

Imogen has only one rule for herself: Don’t Tell and Run Like Hell. But in Swallowtail, there is nowhere to run, and the woman in power is watching, waiting for the one who will betray her.

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