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October 17, 2026 · Chicago
The first in a five-book series for readers 10 and up, plus ten paperbacks hidden in Little Free Libraries across Chicago.
October 17, 2026 · Pacific Northwest
A fantasy set in Elwha, Washington, west of Port Angeles, in the state with the most reported Bigfoot sightings.
Sophia Sprite and the Sasquatch Secret
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Brian is available for interviews and podcast appearances, in-person visits to Chicago-area schools, libraries, bookstores, and book clubs, and free virtual visits for schools, libraries, and book clubs anywhere, including the Olympic Peninsula and Puget Sound region.
About the author
Brian Young is a novelist who believes the best stories live in the spaces between what we know and what we imagine. He grew up in Utah exploring the High Uintas, the setting of his Sacred Vein historical adventure series, and spent eight years hiking the Pacific Northwest, which inspired the Sophia Sprite series for young readers. He is also the author of The Adventures of Pinky Whiskers and Sharp Nose, an illustrated chapter book drawn from stories his great-grandfather used to tell. He lives in Chicago.
Brian Young is a novelist who believes the best stories live in the spaces between what we know and what we imagine.
Brian grew up in Utah hiking, camping, and searching the High Uintas, the same mountains that provide the dramatic backdrop for The Sacred Vein. Those formative years exploring wilderness trails and hearing legends of lost Spanish gold planted the seeds of the Sacred Vein series, a historical adventure saga that blends treasure hunting, indigenous rights, and the wild landscapes of the American West.
He spent eight years in Seattle, where he developed a deep love of hiking the trails of the Pacific Northwest. The misty woods, the sense that something ancient might be watching from just beyond the tree line, the way the wilderness holds secrets it isn't ready to share: all of it found its way onto the page. Those years hiking the PNW trails became the inspiration for the Sophia Sprite series.
When he's not writing, Brian can be found tending to his collection of Funko Pops, watching the Chicago Sky in the WNBA, and working on home improvement projects that always seem to take longer than planned. He currently lives in Chicago with a deep appreciation for a good story, a well-crafted sentence, and the possibility that there's more to the world than meets the eye.
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Sophia Sprite, Book One
Some secrets refuse to stay buried.
Sophia Sprite is a fourteen-year-old soccer player who finds out her late mother had a secret life with the hidden civilization the world calls Bigfoot.
Praise
“An unflinching, heartfelt examination of the choices, tasks, and emotions that come with growing up.”
“Sincere coming-of-age sees teen make room for grief and wonder.”
“Nuanced beats that avoid forced life lessons.”
“The engaging cast of secondary characters offers welcome levity and balance.”
For young readers
Two mice who can never seem to stay out of trouble. Sharp Nose is the adventure-loving big sister, Pinky Whiskers her good-hearted baby brother, and together they're on a journey from home to home in search of a place to call their own.
The Sacred Vein, Book One
Five generations. One obsession. A secret that has killed everyone who came close to finding it.
Historian Ammon Lundquist inherits his family's five-generation obsession with the Lost Rhoades Mine, a legendary treasure hidden somewhere in Utah's Uinta Mountains.
The Sacred Vein, Book Two
The chamber was just the beginning.
The winter after the chamber, a hidden message in an ancestor's locket suggests that Friedrich Hathenbruck kept secrets even from his own journals.
The Sacred Vein, Book Three
The saga's third installment spans continents and centuries.
Two years on, the hunt goes global: two expeditions, a cave collapse, and a hostage standoff.
Coming next: Sophia Sprite and the Banshee Bargain, Book Two of the Sophia Sprite series, is in progress.
Reviewers and librarians can get a free digital review copy of Sophia Sprite and the Sasquatch Secret on Booksprout. Print copies, ebooks, and Audible download codes are available on request by email, for this book or any other title. Chapter 1 of the audiobook, read by Bahni Turpin, is free to stream.
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