October 16, 2026
New Fiction
Hail Mary by Elizabeth Urso – The Foreman family has made their fortune burying the dead. Mary Foreman fled North Shore Township years ago to escape her family’s legacy. But when her estranged mother reappears during a local election, reigniting rumors of corporate corruption and criminal activity, Mary’s uncle summons her to help with his campaign. Mary leaves Toronto and takes up residence in Foreman House – the vacant gothic mansion once home to the family’s infamous funeral business. She also secures a job at her alma mater, St. Joseph’s School for Girls, set to unearth the time capsule her great-grandmother helped mastermind. But when the time capsule is opened, the family’s legacy rears its ugly head once again. Embroiled in a criminal investigation, Mary begins to unravel a truth rooted in her cursed matrilineal line, the haunted funeral home she grew up in, and the crime her mother stood trial for decades earlier. Crushed by the weight of the township’s suspicion, Mary must fight to prove her own innocence. For this is the North Shore of Lake Huron, and the past is always present where the dead don’t die.
Wild People Quiet by Tara Gereaux – Torduvalle, Saskatchewan, 1946. Florence has created a beautiful life for herself. Her home is immaculate; she is a model employee at Pratt’s Insurance, where she works as a secretary. Her hair is the perfect shade of movie-star blonde – never once does she allow her brown roots to show. She dyes them every other Saturday night, without fail. But one morning, everything changes. Florence notices a new group of men at a local diner, Metis workers from out of town, hired on for the season at a nearby farm. And one of them has a connection to the past that Florence has spent her entire life outrunning. He has one simple request for her. Suddenly, Florence is thrown back into memories of her life before, and the line between who she once was and who she has chosen to be feels very thin. And when Florence learns of the government’s plans for the Metis community on the fringes of town, she is forced with a choice – one that will shatter her carefully constructed life forever.
The Many Private Lives of Missy Cooke by Jane Green – Missy only knew her distant and aloof father from afar. He wholly dedicated his life to his work – and to his new family. But when he came to visit, his light shone bright. He was Silicon Valley tech titan Marty Cooke. Now an adult, with tech world aspirations of her own, Missy’s life is a constant negotiation between her own desires and the towering expectations of her father. Then a devastating diagnosis forces Marty to step down from his tech empire, ipryy, and he doesn’t choose a seasoned executive to take his place. He chooses Missy. From the glittering galas of the French Riviera to the hidden realities of ipryy’s global operations, Missy’s journey of self-discovery becomes a battle for the soul of the company. Can she forge her own path and prove her worth, or will she crumble under the weight of her father’s shadow?
The Witch by Freida McFadden – When Julia Barlow loses her job and her apartment, she has nowhere left to go but Pemberton, her family’s sprawling seventeenth century estate in rural Massachusetts. Officially, she’s there to check in on her aging grandmother. Unofficially, she’s hoping the old house will giver her a place to disappear. Instead, Pemberton begins to unravel her. Every night, the grandfather clock stops at exactly 3:41a.m. The lights flicker without warning. And a disembodied voice cries for help outside Julia’s bedroom door. As Julia digs into the house’s dark history, she uncovers the story of a woman executed for witchcraft in 1692 – and realizes the past may not be finished with Pemberton yet. When decades of family lies begin to surface, Julia must confront a terrifying truth: Pemberton may be haunted by women whose voices refuse to stay silent.