Blog Tour & Book Look: Metamorphosis: A Grove Hollow Novel by Shelby Nicole

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Blog Tour & Book Look: Metamorphosis: A Grove Hollow Novel by Shelby Nicole

We are thrilled to be part of the blog tour for Metamorphosis: A Grove Hollow Novel by Shelby Nicole, out this week. Stranger Things meets Twilight…you rang? It is 1985, Jade Whitney has just moved into her family’s sprawling mansion in Grove Hollow, New York, and the only people who will talk to her are the school outcasts who spend their weekends exploring haunted buildings and listening to The Cure. Then she finds a locket connected to a Victorian ghost named William and things get considerably more interesting. Gothic atmosphere, 80s nostalgia, a cursed amulet, a slow burn romance with a ghost, and a book cover Shelby designed herself. Read on for our full book look post!

Metamorphosis: A Grove Hollow Novel

by Shelby Nicole
Published by: Delacorte Press
on July 7, 2026
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Stranger Things meets Twilight in this stunning gothic paranormal romance! A teen girl is swept into an opulent world of love, lies, and ghosts after she moves in with the wealthy, mysterious family she never knew she had. Book One in the Grove Hollow series, this is an 80s dark academia-tinged tale full of fated love, a cursed amulet, and twisted family secrets.
The year is 1985, and eighteen-year-old Jade Whitney is about to discover her family holds a dark secret that will change her life forever. Sent to live with her Great Aunt Ruth, Jade moves into Blythe House, her family's sprawling, gilded mansion—but picturesque Grove Hollow, New York, is anything but welcoming.
At Jade’s new private school she’s shunned by everyone except for the Misfits, the school’s edgy outcasts, who spend their weekends exploring abandoned haunted mansions and listening to the Cure. But Jade’s eye keeps wandering back to Brad, the charming, handsome rugby captain, who might just be the only other kid at school to welcome her.
Everything changes when Jade finds a cursed locket in a derelict estate. The locket is connected to a Victorian ghost named William, who desperately needs Jade’s help, and who Jade feels an undeniable attraction to. And the closer they grow, the more urgent it becomes for Jade to decide where her heart truly lies—and if she’s really willing to let Will go.

Book Look

It is Summerween and we are leaning in.

Black bow-neck top because Jade is trying to fit in at a new school and mostly failing. Green polka dot skirt with the bird on the pocket because something in Grove Hollow is always watching 👀. Gold Converse because it is still summer even when you are being haunted and you deserve to look good while it happens (also because this cover is sparkly! The spotglass is so good.).