The air is rising crisp, the bushes are starting to shed their leaves and pumpkin spice is on each drink menu. This month, Ladies’s Fiction Writers Affiliation has gathered an inventory of novels that maintain a glimmer of magic inside their pages. Whether or not you’re in search of thrillers with a supernatural twist, romance entwined with magical realism or a excessive fantasy romance that includes pegasi, there’s a title right here for you.
Each Fall by Angela Douglas | Rising Motion Publishing Collective, January 2025 (Pre-order accessible)
Bree is aware of that life married to a beat cop shall be robust, particularly in a crime-infested metropolis, however she believes they are going to be superb dwelling in “Burner” even after she has their first little one. Household life is manageable till crime follows them residence, threatening their security.
At a loss for tips on how to hold his household protected and hold his job, Jake agrees to stretch their funds and transfer an hour away to a home in a considerably higher neighborhood. Their lives appear to enhance till Bree, closely pregnant with their second little one, begins to listen to voices and endure unusual desires. After which, when tragedy strikes on the job, Jake enters a spiral of guilt and grief that degrades his grip on actuality.
Bree, remoted and struggling, should defend her youngsters from the one particular person she thought would all the time hold them protected. She and Jake are haunted in each approach, and never simply by no matter is lurking inside the home. A thriller that tackles toxicity in police tradition and trauma, Each Fall can have you on the sting of your seat.
Mirror Me by Lisa Williamson Rosenberg | Little A, December 2024 (Pre-order accessible)
A psychiatric affected person’s determined seek for solutions reveals peculiar reminiscences and sudden connections in a twisty and mind-bending novel of affection, household, betrayal, and secrets and techniques.
Eddie Asher arrives at Hudson Valley Psychiatric Hospital panicked that he might have murdered his brother’s fiancée, Lucy, with whom he shared a profound kinship. He can’t think about doing such a horrible factor, however Eddie hasn’t been himself currently.
Eddie’s nervousness is nothing new to Pär, the one Eddie calls his Different, who protects Eddie from truths he’s too delicate to face. Or so Pär says. Troubled by Pär’s growing sway over his life, Eddie seeks out Dr. Richard Montgomery, a specialist in dissociative identities. The psychiatrist is Eddie’s greatest probability for piecing collectively the puzzle of what actually occurred to Lucy and to understanding his inexplicable reminiscences of one other man’s life. However Montgomery’s strategies set off a kaleidoscope of reminiscences that Pär can’t include, bringing Eddie nearer to an unimaginable fact about his identification.
Unbecoming Emma by Kelly Byrne | Two Pens Press, August 2024
Within the charmingly odd small city of Calypso Springs, Emma Rosen’s once-quiet life turns into a whirlwind of magical chaos after her father’s dying. Curious letters and bouquets materialize from nowhere, however most baffling, her father has change into their yard willow tree.
When Cassie McCormack, the unbearable mother-tornado Emma by no means knew, unexpectedly arrives on the town very a lot alive, and harboring an agenda, it’s not a heartfelt reunion. Emma shuts her out, however she doesn’t keep out for lengthy. Cassie and Bob, Emma’s beloved canine, each fall ailing with a mysterious illness and Emma discovers the sudden connection between them that’s introduced ache to the McCormack ladies for generations.
Determined for solutions about tips on how to save them, Emma unravels the thriller of her previous, one lie at a time, and immediately questions every part she thought she knew about her household and herself.
With their hourglass operating out of sand, they be taught the important thing to their survival lies locked in an enchanted field. Can mom and daughter forgive the sins of the previous and open it earlier than it’s too late?
Skye, Revised by Pamela Spradlin Mahajan | The Wild Rose Press, March 2024
After being humiliated on a actuality singing present, PR assistant Skye Peters is merely present. She’s past bored along with her life, together with her well-meaning however clueless boyfriend, Teddy. Whereas hiding in a closet to keep away from Teddy’s tried marriage proposal, Skye is inexplicably shot by a masked intruder. When she awakens, she finds herself in an odd actuality the place she is a well-known pop star with thousands and thousands of followers and an attractive Scottish husband.
Life appears idyllic at first, however the cracks quickly start to look. Skye seeks solace in Teddy, however he doesn’t know her on this new world. Will she get a second probability at her outdated life or is she destined to be caught in a actuality she doesn’t need?
Neena Lee Is Seeing Issues by Sheila Athens | Quier Coast Press, Inc. November 2023
Fifty-six-year-old Neena Lee is determined to revive her journey writing profession after a collection of setbacks. She’s lastly despatched on project to the distant Georgia island the place John F. Kennedy, Jr. was married. She’s shocked to search out JFK, Jr. himself ready for her there … although he’s been useless for twenty-five years.
The very last thing Neena wants is to begin seeing issues, however JFK, Jr. wants her assist, and it appears Neena would possibly want his assist, too.
It Occurred Tomorrow by Susan Steggall | Editions Kusatsu, Could 2013
Cast signatures and pretend ‘masterpieces’… fraud is not any stranger to the artworld. Dissatisfied with rural life in France, arts reporter Mal returns to Australia, the place she stumbles on a distinct form of fraud at a significant artwork gallery.
One thing is fallacious with the person presenting as French artist Denis Denarius, whom she met on the Lyon Biennale. There, Denarius was an erudite and witty speaker. Right here, in Sydney, he’s hesitant, speaking about his artwork as if by rote.
Mal flies again to France the place she enlists the help of her brother Parry, her husband Ludo, and his sister Apolline to research Denis Denarius. They change into enmeshed in a weird realm of surgical transformations to create simulacra of well-known artists; holograms managed by microcomputers implanted in sufferer’s skulls.
The stratosphere of latest artwork turns into a harmful actuality when Parry is kidnapped. The others should discover him earlier than he turns into the following guinea pig. As soon as at this time is safely up to now, Mal recognises that her tomorrows are with Ludo.
On a Wing and a Dare by Linda Ulleseit | Flying Horse Books. March 2013
In Tremeirchson, a barn chief’s youngsters are anticipated to comply with their dad and mom into the sky, changing into riders of the magnificent, winged horses which are the medieval Welsh village’s legacy. Neither Emma nor Davyd, nevertheless, need to comply with that custom. Emma longs to journey a forbidden winged colt born within the barn of her father’s largest rival. She additionally desires of the rival’s sons.
Daring and thrilling, Evan will sometime lead his father’s barn. Davyd is quieter, extra reliable. Davyd can also be plagued with a secret — he’s afraid of heights. Refusing to change into a rider means public humiliation, his dad and mom’ disappointment, and lifelong ridicule from his brother, Evan. As Tremeirchson’s barns put together for the Rider Ceremony, winged horses immediately begin dying. Shocked, the adults hesitate, mired in custom and politics. Is it a illness or poison?
Somebody should uncover the reply and act earlier than all of the winged horses on this planet are gone eternally.
