Mary is an unremarkable woman who blends into the background. She was a woman who used to live a plain life but things within her are slowly shifting and plain she is no more. Mary is experiencing hot flashes, body aches, and fainting spells she previously wasn't prone too but more terrifying than that is she's beginning to hear voices that urge her towards unspeakable acts.

Fired from her job, she moves from New York back to her hometown with one goal in mind: find herself again. What comes with her return are terrifying visions, mutilation, and thoughts she is now compelled to write down. Thoughts that upon reflection, mirror the experiences of an infamous serial killer. Then the killings begin. Again.

When Paris Peralta  is arrested in her bathroom holding a straight razor and covered in blood, she's not thinking about how her celebrity husband's dead body laying the bathtub beside her is the reason for her arrest and subsequent murder change, she's thinking about the publicity it will bring. That's what worries her the most, not the charge but the media who will bring with them her past and inevitably someone who recognises her, ready and eager to tear down the new life she's built and any chance for a future with it.

Twenty-five years earlier, Ruby Reyes was convicted for a similar crime and Ruby knows who Paris really is. When she's unexpectedly released early from prison, she does exactly what Paris fears - threatens to expose her secrets. Left with no choice but to confront her past, Paris tackles it head on because there is nothing worse than a murder charge, except two murder charges.

The Book of Gothel is McMyne's debut novel, a retelling of Rapunzel and the witch who locked her in the tower. Haelewise has lived her life underneath her mother's shadow as a way to remain protected from the other villagers. Her fainting spells and black eyes make her an oddity and they refuse to welcome such strangeness. Her only refuge are the stories her mother tells, stories of witches stealing children, ancient towers cloaked in mist, and stories of brave woman who seek shelter.

Then her mother dies and she's alone. With nothing tying her to her unwelcoming home, she makes the brave decision to step out into the world and find the legendary tower from her mother's stories, a place called Gothel. When she finds Gothel, Haelewise is immediately taken under the wing of a wise woman but, she's not the only one seeking refuge at Gothel. Rika sought Gothel to hide from the Church, carrying with her a secret they want hidden. A secret that unlocks a dark world of power, murder, and spells - all hidden behind the only world Haelewise has ever known.