My Best Friend is a Cryptid

By M. M. Crusinberry

Meg's best friend has been lying to her since they were kids.
Only... she isn't lying.

She's not human.

Everyone in town knows Sara-quiet, sweet, a little strange in the way some people just are. And Meg has loved her forever. They grew up side by side, stitched together by inside jokes, late-night walks, and the kind of friendship that feels more like fate than choice.

Until Sara starts glitching.

Forgetting what food is. Reacting wrong to mirrors. Humming a breathy, impossible language that makes moths gather like they're listening.

Then Meg finds a hidden journal... and the truth snaps her world in half:

Sara isn't Sara.

A cryptid has been wearing her face since childhood-watching, learning, blending in. Loving Meg with a devotion that's too fierce to be fake... and too inhuman to be safe.

Her real name is Mika.

And now a shadowy government agency is hunting cryptids in Meg's town.

If Meg tells the truth, she loses her best friend forever.
If she stays silent, she risks losing herself.

Because the hunters aren't just searching for cryptids.

They're searching for Meg-the human anchor Mika can't let go of.

And whatever lives in the fog is learning how to steal voices, rewrite memories, and turn friendship into bait.

Darkly funny, deeply tender, and threaded with modern folklore, My Best Friend Is a Cryptid is a high-concept YA contemporary fantasy about identity, loyalty, and choosing the monster who chose you first.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GJ37Z74Q
• ISBN13: 9798244924541
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"