Dani Cessna
Author
Ghost Orchid – COMING September 22, 2026 from Lake Union Publishing!
Deep in the swamps of Florida, a grieving park ranger forms a friendship with a mysterious recluse—and uncovers long-rumored secrets about a plant that raises the dead. Once ambitious and spontaneous, all park ranger Miranda wants after losing her best friend is stillness. Her…
The Language of the Mountains
In a country ruined by sea level rise, plague, and wildfires, Jess Diaz leaves her father’s body in their home in Las Vegas, packs a gun she doesn’t know how to use, and heads for the border wall west of the Mississippi River. Her…
The Future Beneath the River
Merritt Wagner, a long-time National Park Service employee, is hired into a management position at a national park in the wilds of Pennsylvania. A couple weeks into the new job, Merritt discovers the park exists not only to protect natural and cultural resources, but…
🎉🎉COVER REVEAL!!🎉🎉
I am beyond enamored with the cover of my debut novel, Ghost Orchid!! It far exceeds what I had imagined this book would look like. PRE-ORDERS for paperbacks are live on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookshop.org and other places books are sold. I’ll let…
Endometriosis
Content Warning: Medical trauma and gore There is a blood trail behind me, smeary across the hardwood floor, streaked across the cement, and staining the pale tile. Dark clots cling to rock or dirt or pavement wherever I go. When I move, the threads…
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