Avery Timmons

Avery Timmons is an Illinois-based writer with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from Columbia College Chicago. Using her lifelong love of words, she works in journalistic editing and has been writing fiction since she was in elementary school. Her short fiction can be found or is forthcoming in several online and print publications, including with Querencia Press and in Wild Ink Publishing’s Clio’s Curious Dash Through Time anthology. Thicker Than Water is her debut novel.

Thicker Than Water

Eighteen-year-old Lydia Ross wants nothing more than to be normal, which is impossible, considering she’s half-vampire, half-human. But she finds her escape from her overprotective father when she starts her freshman year of college in downtown Chicago.

Just as Lydia feels like she is finally fitting in among her newfound human friends, she gets lost in the facade and accidentally attacks a classmate. The attack unlocks a fantastical world of fellow vampires, Fae, and even werewolves that has been hidden just below the surface of her everyday life—including its secrets and threats. 

Caught between the two sides of herself, her blood family, and her found family, Lydia is faced with the struggles of self-acceptance and impossible decisions, including her biggest fear: coming clean to the humans in her life and risk losing them for good.