Meet Carla Seyler on Sunday, April 12th at Page & Palette! 

Stop by between 1-3PM to grab a coffee or a glass of wine and get a copy of A Place Unmade signed. Come chat with the author and discover your next great read!

A Place Unmade

In A Place Unmade, relentless greed upends a fragile farm economy in an all-too-plausible thriller about a crisis in the world’s food supply. Science crime, and love meet in a meticulously researched story that starts in New Orleans and threatens the world.

When marketing director Valentina Sorelli’s cousin loses his Nebraska wheat farm to a mysterious virus, she discovers drone debris in his fields that launches her investigation into a deadly conspiracy threatening America’s food supply.

As a graduate student at New Orleans University, Valentina learns that the agricultural disaster isn’t natural—it’s the result of a calculated attack using weaponized mites to create a grain monopoly. When she uncovers the shocking truth about who's behind the crisis, Valentina must choose between her safety and exposing a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of corporate agriculture.

With the help of classmate Sam Stillman—whose own father may be involved—and a Scottish entomologist whose research was stolen to create the biological weapon, Valentina races to stop the perpetrators before they can eliminate the last hope for America’s farmers. But when her plan to gather evidence goes catastrophically wrong, she finds herself trapped in a deadly confrontation that will determine the fate of the nation’s food security.

Carla Seyler

Carla Seyler is a native of New Orleans, a place that has been unmade by disasters both natural and engineered, but one that offers a master class in patience, resilience and joy.

Carla grew up in a large family steeped in the rich and sometimes warring cultures of Italian American and Acadian French immigrants—always loving, usually loud. As a child, she read constantly. Carla’s first career of many years was in the field of vocational rehabilitation counseling.

A Place Unmade has won Chanticleer International, Literary Titan, PenCraft and Readers Favorites awards. Carla was recognized as a 2024 debut author by International Thriller Writers. Carla, her husband and their two rescue kittens divide their time between New Orleans and Buena Vista, Colorado, where she is co-editor of the Central Colorado Writers Monthly Edition. She is completing her second novel which is also based in south Louisiana.