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Short Bio
Mackenzie Reed is the author of books with heart, humor, and hijinks. She has a Communication and Media degree from Nazareth College and unironically enjoys long walks on the beach. Her young adult novels, The Rosewood Hunt and The Wilde Trials, are out now with HarperCollins.
Long(er) Bio
Mackenzie Reed is the author of books with heart, humor, and hijinks. She cultivated her love of storytelling at Nazareth College, where she graduated with a BA in Communication and Media and shifted her focus from songwriting to novel writing. A native and resident of Rochester, New York, she loves going for brainstorming walks when the weather’s behaving and spending time with her family. In the sparse moments she’s not writing or daydreaming about her next book, she’s usually winging her eyeliner and hunting for the best slice of pizza in town. Her young adult novels, The Rosewood Hunt and The Wilde Trials, are out now with HarperCollins.
Social Media Links
You can find me on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and BlueSky by the same handle – @mackenziemreed.
Young Adult Books
The Rosewood Hunt
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
Formats: Hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook
ISBN: 9780063287600
Film inquiries: Mirabel Michelson, United Talent Agency
Cover Artist: Holly Ovenden
Irresistible intrigue, captivating suspense, a swoony friends-to-rivals-to-lovers romance, and heartbreaking betrayal drive this thrilling debut novel that is perfect for fans of The Inheritance Games and Knives Out.
Lily Rosewood has lived with her grandmother since her dad’s death a year ago. She and Gram have always been close—Gram’s role as chair of their family’s luxury coat business has inspired Lily’s love of fashion, and Lily hopes to follow in Gram’s footsteps one day.
Then Gram dies suddenly, and Lily’s world is upended. Gram’s quarter of a billion dollar fortune is missing, and Lily has been banned from the manor she and Gram shared.
But Gram has always loved games, and even in death, she still has a few tricks up her couture sleeve. When Lily and three other seemingly random teens get letters from Gram sending them on a treasure hunt around Rosetown, they hope the fortune will be the reward. But they’re not the only ones hunting for Gram’s treasure, and soon the hunt becomes more dangerous than they ever could have imagined.
Short Pitch: A YA thriller about a crew of outcast teens who reluctantly ally to follow a string of clues in search of a missing fortune, but as they’re hunting it down, somebody starts hunting them.
The Wilde Trials
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pub Date: January 21, 2025
Formats: Hardcover, ebook, and audiobook
ISBN: 9780063287648
Film inquiries: Mirabel Michelson, United Talent Agency
Cover Artist: Holly Ovenden
From the acclaimed author of The Rosewood Hunt comes a thrilling new mystery about a high-stakes competition packed with shocking twists, second chances, and deadly deceit, where allies—and enemies—are the people you’d least expect.
Chloe Gatti will do whatever it takes to win her elite boarding school’s annual competition, the Wilde Trials. In the two weeks leading up to graduation from Wilde Academy, a dozen seniors are chosen to compete in a series of seven ultimate physical and mental tests, and the winner will take home over half a million dollars—money that Chloe needs to help her sick sister.
But the competition is fierce and includes her brooding ex-boyfriend, Hayes Stratford, whose brother was the only student to die during the trials a few years ago. When someone starts blackmailing Chloe during the competition, she’s forced to strike a deal with Hayes—if he helps her discover who is sabotaging her, she’ll help him solve the mystery his brother left behind.
Following clues from Hayes’s brother, the unlikely allies discover that something isn’t right about the Wilde Trials. With a life-changing prize looming over her head and her buried feelings for Hayes rising to the surface, Chloe will have to decide what’s really worth fighting for, and if the cost of competing outweighs the potential consequences, even if that includes ending up like Hayes’s brother—dead.
Short Pitch: A YA thriller about a girl competing in a high-stakes tournament to win money for her sick sister, but when someone starts blackmailing her, she strikes a tenuous truce with her brooding ex: he’ll help uncover her blackmailer if she helps him solve the mystery his late brother left behind.