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Welcome to The Wickedly Whimsical World of...

WILDER SANDERLING

Wilder Sanderling writes pacey, poignant books for all ages, where the crushed velvet (and sometimes bloody) curtains of this world part, and both vintage starlets and mythical monsters peek through...

A black and white photo of author Wilder Sanderling with stubble and glasses in front of a art deco wallpapered wall.
The Wish Token book cover, featuring a silhouette of a city and the pink figure of a woman falling off a building with fireworks in the background.

THE WISH TOKEN

"You can take a place away from a secret, but secrets always remember their place."

City Skyline View

"...enough satisfying plot twists to appease even hard-to-please readers... A genre-blending novel that's a quirky little gem." 
Kirkus Reviews

Gothic building with red fireworks over city skyline at night

THE WISH TOKEN

The Wish Token book cover, featuring a silhouette of a city and the pink figure of a woman falling off a building with fireworks in the background.
Pink silhouette of a woman falling against a dark, gothic building background.

Nick Vallenhal’s wealthy,

eccentric family still attracts controversy for the 1939

murder of his Oscar-winning

movie star great-great-                                grandmother, Belle                          Amane, and  the theft

              of her priceless                                Fabergé purse, the                          Plachuschiy Grifon...

Pink silhouette of a person laying down, against a black background.

MURDER. TIME TRAVEL. AN APOCALYPSE.
JUST ANOTHER DAY IN THE LIFE OF A VALLENHAL.

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