Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Emy McGuire!
Book:
NO ONE ABOARD. What is more dangerous to a family? A stormy ocean… or each other?
Likes:
Swords, sailing, women’s stories, eating lemons like oranges, and connecting to people
Writes:
Delicious and decadent domestic thrillers (and someday soon, queer dark fantasy)
About:
I am a debut author new to the literary scene, and hopeful to find my soulmate readers! I grew up in Colorado, but my heart belongs to the ocean. I sailed across the Atlantic when I was twenty, and I graduated from New College of Florida with a degree in theatre and creative writing. I have toured the United States performing in the Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy, played Queen Elizabeth I at multiple renaissance fairs, and written a queer pirate musical that is a newcoming TikTok sensation. Now that I am a published author, I hope to be able to continue telling stories for the rest of my life.
You should swipe right on me if you like:
• Glistening and haunting narratives
• Dysfunctional, elite families
• “Riveting, astonishing” plot twists
• Twin protagonists with opposite hearts
• Dark romantic subplots
• Unsettling oceanic atmosphere
• Fantastical archetypes in contemporary settings
What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match:
• Adventurous and drawn to the dark parts of humanity
• Fans of morally gray characters and complex relationships
• A twisted sense of humor and attention to detail
• Loyal, engaged, and ready to strap in for a long and diverse creative career
What to expect if we’re compatible:
• A variety of projects from thrillers to musicals to fantasy and more
• Luxurious aesthetics where nature can sometimes play a character and the stakes are larger than life
• Ugly families, tight-knit families, found families, gilded families, families rotting at the core and ones woven so tightly in their own roots that they are bound to choke
• Mass missing people cases, cases gone unsolved, and often ones where there are no good guys, only occasionally survivors
• Multiple perspectives, dual timelines, and nods to the riches of history, nature, society, and love
• Relationships so deeply enmeshed they may be drowning one another, and perhaps that is the point. Siblings, parents, lovers, friends.
• A long-standing relationship between writer and reader where I hope to always leave you fascinated, wounded, and craving more.
NO ONE ABOARD by Emy McGuire
Narrator: Ina Barrón
The White Lotus meets The Last Thing He Told Me in this domestic mystery about a luxury sailboat found floating adrift in the ocean and the secrets of the missing family who set sail aboard it weeks before…
At the start of summer, billionaire couple Francis and Lila Cameron set off on their private luxury sailboat to celebrate the high school graduation of their two beloved children.
Three weeks later, the Camerons have not been heard from, the captain hasn’t responded to radio calls, and the sailboat is found floating off the coast of Florida.
Empty.
Where are the Camerons? What happened on their trip? And what secrets does the beautiful boat hold?
Set over the course of their vacation and in the aftermath of the sailboat’s discovery, No One Aboard asks who is more dangerous to a family: a stormy ocean or each other?
Women’s Fiction Family Life | Thriller Domestic [ Graydon House, On Sale: December 2, 2025, Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook, ISBN: 9781525831621 / eISBN: 9780369764942 ]
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About Emy McGuire
Emy McGuire is an aspiring siren, sailor, and sword-enthusiast whose passion in life is to experience and tell stories. She has written eight novels, sailed across the Atlantic ocean, and has the world premiere of two of her plays in summer 2025.
Emy was raised in the foothills of Colorado, but she has spent time all over the world, including on the road performing Edgar Allan Poe from San Francisco to Salem, on a ship sailing from Rome to Antigua, and Sarasota, Florida where she received her bachelor’s in Theatre, Dance, Performance Studies/Creative Writing from the New College of Florida.
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