About Tracey Hope

Tracey Hope writes young adult fantasy about crossing places: the thresholds between worlds, the choices that test us, and the people who help us find our way home.

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Liv and the Crossing Places is a 60,000-word YA fantasy with a sapphic first-love story at its heart. Fourteen-year-old Liv escapes bullying and a fragile home life through a crossing place into a faery realm, where she finds belonging and Rowan, a faery who truly sees her. But when Liv discovers that this beautiful world is powered by trafficked human children, she must persuade Rowan to betray her own kind and help her rescue them.

 

Grounded in the landscapes of the Yorkshire Dales and drawing on local folklore, the novel combines queer, nature-based magic with a fierce emotional core and a morally complex world in which magic leaves scars. It stands alone with potential for further stories set in the same world.

 

Tracey Hope is a teacher and published poet whose experience supporting teenagers with a range of anxieties informs her fiction. She writes with empathy for young people navigating fear, identity, belonging, and first love.ve.