OVERFLOW: Maggie Stiefvater

Please note: Our main event space is sold out, but overflow seating is now available! With this option, guests will watch a live stream of the event from our third floor studio space. Following the event, overflow guests will be brought down to join the signing line and meet Maggie.

Join us in welcoming #1 New York Times bestselling novelist Maggie Stiefvater for her adult fiction debut, The Listeners. Based on the real-life history of West Virginia hotels like the Greenbrier and the Homestead—near where Stiefvater grew up and lives now—The Listeners is a deeply researched and deeply felt novel about shifting alliances and power imbalances, the true cost of luxury, and good people trying to do the right thing.

All tickets are bundled with a copy of The Listeners which Maggie will sign at the event. Tickets are required for this event.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
“Mesmeric, original, and stunning. Maggie Stiefvater is an exceptional talent, and The Listeners is by turns a beautiful love story, a fascinating glimpse into the horrors of history, and a haunting tale of loyalty and courage. A marvel of storytelling. I really couldn’t have loved it more.” —Chris Whitaker, author of All The Colors of the Dark

#1 New York Times bestselling novelist Maggie Stiefvater dazzles in this mesmerizing portrait of an irresistible heroine, an unlikely romance, and a hotel—and a world—in peril.

January 1942. The Avallon Hotel & Spa has always offered elegant luxury in the wilds of West Virginia, its mountain sweetwater washing away all of high society’s troubles.

Local girl-turned-general manager June Porter Hudson has guided the Avallon skillfully through the first pangs of war. The Gilfoyles, the hotel’s aristocratic owners, have trained her well. But when the family heir makes a secret deal with the State Department to fill the hotel with captured Axis diplomats, June must persuade her staff—many of whom have sons and husbands heading to the front lines—to offer luxury to Nazis. With a smile.

Meanwhile FBI Agent Tucker Minnick, whose coal tattoo hints at an Appalachian past, presses his ears to the hotel’s walls, listening for the diplomats’ secrets. He has one of his own, which is how he knows that June’s balancing act can have dangerous consequences: the sweetwater beneath the hotel can threaten as well as heal.

June has never met a guest she couldn’t delight, but the diplomats are different. Without firing a single shot, they have brought the war directly to her. As clashing loyalties crack the Avallon’s polished veneer, June must calculate the true cost of luxury.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Maggie Stiefvater is the New York Times bestselling author of the Shiver trilogy, The Raven Cycle, and The Scorpio Races, among dozens of other YA fantasy novels. Her books have sold over five million copies around the world. She lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with her husband and their two children.