Welcome to Future Fiction, my reimagining of the Waiting on Wednesday meme! There are so many amazing new books coming out, that I can no longer pick just one. My goal with Future Fiction is to share at least three new books each week, a combination of recent cover reveals and books that I’ve recently added to my TBR pile. I’m still going to be linking up with Wishful Endings/Can’t Wait Wednesday, and I also want to give a shout out to Jill at Breaking the Spine for starting the original Waiting on Wednesday meme. I hope you’ll find some new books to add to your TBR piles, and as always, I look forward to hearing what YOU’RE looking forward to:-D
Yes, it’s Christmas Day, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t new covers to share! Here are three I found:
A chilling ghost story in which a mother and daughter move into a crumbling house haunted by the ghost of a girl who performed in Victorian freak shows, through which wind whistles eerily, floorboards creak ominously and things go bump in the night.
It’s Laura Purcell’s The Silent Companions meets Alice Hoffman’s The Museum of Extraordinary Things.
Following the break-up of a controlling marriage, single mother Nell moves into the crumbling Victorian Merry Hall with her teenage daughter, Fern. She’s determined to make a new life but the noises, moving objects, and strange smells in her new home make her increasingly unsettled.
In the 1840s, showman Abel Wenham seduces Dolly, a talented albino girl and makes her the star of his performing collection of ‘freaks’. But after she becomes pregnant with his child, he discards her and imprisons her at Merry Hall, where her only solace is the company of fellow performers Ada the Bear Lady and the Jack the Posturer. They plan to escape with Dolly and her child and set up in business, but Wenham has other ideas.
When Fern admits she, too, is pregnant, it seems as though history may be about to repeat itself. But is Dolly, just one of the ghosts that haunt Merry Hall, reaching out across the centuries to protect her own child?
The Ghosts of Merry Hall by Heather Davey. Releases in September 2025 from Titan Books. Everything about this calls to me: the cover, the Laura Purcell and Alice Hoffman comparison, and the haunted house trope. I can’t wait!
Lore Olympus meets Winter’s Orbit in this pulse-pounding romance between a space mercenary and a super soldier whose mind-control breaks when she touches him.
He’s a mind controlled killing machine, until her touch frees him
Engineer Caro Ogunyemi thinks she has everything in control. Sure, she has a dark secret in her past and aim so bad that she can’t shoot the side of a spaceship when she’s right in front of it, but those are minor details in the life of a space mercenary. When Caro embarks on a solo mission infiltrating a prison planet that is run by the deadly Pierce family, she embraces the opportunity to prove she’s a hero.It’s there that Caro meets Leviathan, a super soldier with a chip in his head that turns him into a mindless killer. He’s drop dead gorgeous with an emphasis on drop dead, until she touches him and renders his chip inert. The danger begins when she lets him go.
In the heart of enemy territory, where love is at stake, life is treacherous and time is short, Caro and Leviathan must figure out how to recover his agency, protect her crew from Pierce’s sinister machinations, and stage a prison-break before Leviathan is lost to her—and himself—forever.
Chaos (Uncharted Hearts #3) by Constance Fay. Releases in March 2025 from Bramble. Somehow I missed the cover reveal a couple of weeks ago, but here is the third book in Fay’s extremely entertaining space romance series! I’m not sure if this is the final book or not, but I guess we’ll find out…
A talented heretic must decide between the pursuit of forbidden magic, or the ecstasy of forbidden love—either way, her choice will upend the world, in the start of a sweeping, romantic epic fantasy trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Tessa Gratton.
Can an empire trip and fall on a mere strand of silk?
Iriset is a prodigy and an outlaw. The daughter of a powerful criminal, she dons her alter ego Silk to create magical disguises for those in her father’s organization, but she longs to do more with her to enhance what it means to be human by giving people wings, night-sight, and other abilities; to unlock the possibilities of gender and parenthood; to cure disease and even to end mortality itself.
Everything changes when her father is captured and sentenced to death. To save him, Iriset must infiltrate the palace and the empire’s fanatical ruling family. There, she realizes she has a chance—and an obligation—to bring down the entire corrupt system. She’ll have to entangle herself in the lives of the emperor and his sister, getting them to trust and even to love her. But love is a two-way street, and Iriset’s own heart holds the most mysterious and impenetrable magic of all.
The Mercy Makers by Tessa Gratton. Releases in June 2025 from Orbit Books. I’m reading less and less epic fantasy these days, but I have to say this sounds like it might work for me. I am in love with this cover as well!
Merry Christmas Tammy! Thanks for keeping this feature up all year!
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Merry Christmas! I’m loving the sound of The Mercy Makers. Another one for my 2025 list!
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Merry Christmas, Tammy!
The Ghosts of Merry Hall sounds great!
Merry Christmas! Ooo a sci-fi romance and the Mercy Makers! Those both look good.
Ooo, The Mercy Makers needs to be higher on my TBR! The Ghosts of Merry Hall is new to me, but sounds interesting
Merry Christmas! The Ghost of Merry Hall, looks cool. 🙂
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The Mercy’s Maker is Drop dead gorgeous!
The Ghosts of Merry Hall looks good to me! Great picks!