Cover Reveal: What Feeds Below by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne

Today is the cover reveal for one of my most highly anticipated reads, What Feeds Below by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne! The book releases October 6, 2026, and is available for pre-order.

The Descent meets Annihilation in What Feeds Below, a deliciously creepy YA horror fantasy that asks: Who do you become in the face of absolute darkness, and what would you do to survive?

The darkness isn’t empty. It’s hungry.

At the edge of the City of the Void, a massive chasm extends miles into the earth, its treacherous terrain overrun with vicious monsters and carnivorous plants. For orphaned best friends Petra and Jade, guiding treasure-seeking tourists down into the Void is the only way to earn enough to pull themselves up out of the slums for good.

Petra prefers to play it safe and take jobs only in the Void’s upper levels, where the dangers are better understood, while Jade wants to risk a descent to the deepest and most mysterious Sixth Layer. Because the deeper they go, the better the payout, and the sooner their dreams can become reality. Their friendship is Petra’s whole world, and Jade’s approval means everything—so Petra agrees to do it Jade’s way.

When their job goes wrong and Jade is lost in the Void, Petra must plunge deeper than she’s ever dared to save her friend. But she doesn’t know the truth of the Void . . . or what really waits for her in its depths.

I first discovered Tatiana’s writing when I received an advanced copy of her young adult debut, Such Lovely Skin, and then her adult debut, The Mean Ones. She has become such a lovely friend of mine, and her books are essential reading – especially for fans of YA horror, pink horror, or fantasy horror.

You can find an interview I had with Tatiana for The Mean Ones below!