Her Soul for Revenge

Juniper is one of the narrators and protagonists of Her Soul for Revenge. She first appears in the text at age 15, when she and her best friend, Victoria Hadleigh, plan to do LSD together. Juniper learns that this is a ploy to try to sacrifice her to the Deep One, the ancient, slumbering god that the local cult, the Libiri, worship. Juniper, through grit and fortitude, survives the attempted sacrifice, though her experiences being trapped and injured deep in an abandoned mine leave her with significant trauma. Juniper impulsively attempts to attack Victoria in revenge and ends up incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital for three years. The combined struggles of the attack against her, the medical abuse perpetuated against her by doctors (who were secretly loyal to the Libiri), and constantly being told that her memories were false or drug fueled have caused Juniper significant post-traumatic stress.

She spends three years after her incarceration running from the Eldbeasts that pursue her on the Deep One’s behalf, though this physical avoidance is analogous to her emotional avoidance of dealing with the trauma of her past. She only returns to Abelaum after her brother, Marcus, is killed and sacrificed to the Deep One, which inspires in Juniper mingled feelings of anger, grief, and guilt, as Marcus died in part because she survived the attempted sacrifice.