Cover Reveal: THE GLASS GARDEN by Jessica Lévai

We’re delighted to reveal the cover design for Jessica Lévai’s sophomore novella, forthcoming from Lanternfish Press on May 13, 2025.

Lanternfish Press announced the acquisition of the novella in July. Lanternfish Press published her debut work, The Night Library of Sternendach: A Vampire Opera in Verse, in 2021.

The cover of The Glass Garden was designed by Kimberly Glyder with art direction by Christine Neulieb.

Dr. Therese Blake is a homebody archaeologist devoted to the history of planet Earth. But when her sister Lissy makes a stunning discovery near an abandoned colony on a distant exoplanet, the sisters team up to discover its secrets.

Eerie, luminescent images cover the walls of an underground cavern. The glass garden looks like a payday to Lissy, who’s been struggling to turn a profit to keep her salvage crew fed and paid. Therese, however, insists on careful academic procedure. She can’t figure it out: Is the anomaly an artificial creation–or a living organism?

As the anomaly’s mystery draws the sisters into an obsessive orbit, it turns out neither greed nor science can offer protection from its relentless gravity.

Jessica Lévai has loved stories and storytellers for as long as she can remember. After a PhD in Egyptology and eight years as a professor of Anthropology, she dedicated herself to writing full time. She lives near Boston with her husband and two kids.