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
Today I have witches, vampires and demons. And possibly a haunted house. Take a look!
A woman must confront the demons of her past when she attempts to fix up her childhood home in this devilishly clever take on the haunted house novel from the USA Today bestselling author.
Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer, but beneath the glossy veneer she harbors a not-so glamorous secret: she grew up in a haunted house. Well, not haunted. Possessed. After Clio’s parent’s messy divorce, her mother, Alex, moved Clio and her sisters into a house occupied by a demon. Or so Alex claimed. That’s not what Clio’s sisters remember or what the courts determined when they stripped Alex of custody after she went off the deep end. But Alex was insistent; she even wrote a book about her experience in the house.
After Alex’s sudden death, the supposedly possessed house passes to Clio and her sisters. Where her sisters see childhood trauma, Clio sees an opportunity for house flipping content. Only, as the home makeover process begins, Clio discovers there might be some truth to her mother’s claims. As memories resurface and Clio finally reads her mother’s book, the presence in the house becomes more real, and more sinister, revealing ugly truths that threaten to shake Clio’s beautiful life to its very foundation.
Play Nice by Rachel Harrison. Releases in September 2025 from Berkley. I was so excited to see this cover revealed! I always have fun with Harrison’s books, and I’m sure this will be another good one.
From the author of the “exciting, suspenseful, horrifying” (Stephen King) Fever House, a Vietnam veteran and his adopted niece hunt—and are hunted by—the vampire that slaughtered their family.
It’s the winter of 1975, and Duane Minor, back home in Portland, Oregon after a tour in Vietnam, is struggling to quell his anger and keep his drinking in check, keep his young marriage intact, and keep the nightmares away. Things get even more complicated when his thirteen-year-old niece, Julia, is sent across the country to live with her Aunt Heidi and Uncle Duane after a tragedy. But slowly, carefully, guided by Heidi’s love and patience, the three of them are building a family.
Then Minor crosses the wrong man: John Varley, a criminal with a bloody history and a trail of bodies behind him. Varley, who sleeps during the day beneath loose drifts of earth and grows teeth in the light of the moon. In an act of brutal retaliation, Varley kills Heidi, leaving Minor broken with guilt and Julia shot through with rage. The two of them are left united by only one thing: the desire for vengeance.
As their quest brings them into the dark orbit of immortal, undead children, silver bullet casters, and the bevy of broken men drawn to Varley’s ferocity, Minor and Julia follow his path of destruction from the gritty alleyways of 1970s Portland to the desolate highways of the Northwest and the snow-lashed plains of North Dakota—only to have him turn his vicious power back on them. Who will prevail, who will survive, and what remains of our humanity when our thirst for revenge trumps everything else?
Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson. Releases in September 2025 from Random House. I haven’t read Rosson’s other books, but I’m definitely interested in this one, a vampire story set in the 1970s. Can’t wait!
A historical fantasy debut set against the backdrop of World War II, where a witch journeys to find a book of unspeakable power before it lands in Nazi hands
Stubborn, plain-spoken and from an unimpressive family, Lydia Polk never expected to be accepted into the Royal Academy of Witches. Eight years later, with Hitler’s army rampaging across Europe, the witches of Britain have joined the war effort, and Lydia is key to the she must use her magic to track down magical relics before Hitler—known to be obsessively seeking the artifacts himself—and his sycophants can. Then a Nazi witch infiltrates the Academy with heart-breaking consequences, leaving the coven shaken, exposed and the elder British witches have no interest in further loss of coven life in service of a government that has forced them into hiding for decades, no matter the consequences to the world. But with the discovery of the Grimorium Bellum, an ancient book that leaves a trail of death and destruction wherever it goes—one the Nazi coven is desperate to get their hands on—Lydia’s mission has never been more urgent.
Alone and woefully outnumbered, Lydia makes her way to the heart of occupied France, where she finds allies in Rebecca Gagne—a fierce French resistance fighter chockful of secrets—and Henry Boudreaux—a handsome Haitian-American art historian with a little magic of his own. Together, they traverse the country, stalked by the natural and supernatural alike, in search of the grimoire. But, as Lydia soon discovers, finding the Grimorium Bellum is only half the the book has a dark agenda of its own. Lydia must subdue it before the witches of the Third Reich can use it—but she’ll have to survive the book herself, first.
A Resistance of Witches by Morgan Ryan. Releases in July 2025 from Viking. This wasn’t even on my radar until I was offered a review copy, and now it’s one of my most anticipated summer releases. Doesn’t this sound amazing?
These three sound pretty intriguing! The one that speaks to me the most is Play Nice. It’s not my usual choice, but it sounds interesting!!
I can’t wait to read Play Nice:-)
These all sound great and Coffin Moon looks so creepy!
I love the cover!
I really like the sound of Play Nice. I always enjoy a haunted house story so I’m definitely intrigued by this one!
Coffin Moon also seems like a great story. I’m always up for a good vamp story and I love the 1970 setting as well!
The same for A Resistance of Witches! Sounds like an amazing story and my history loving self would really enjoy it, I think!
I can see you reading A Resistance of Witches!
Ok, I definitely want to read RESISTANCE OF WITCHES. I seem to gravitate to historical witchy fiction lol. And one day I’ll read a Rachel Harrison book!
I’m so curious about Resistance of Witches, and Rachel Harrison’s books are really good!
Play Nice and A Resistance of Witches? Sign me up! Thank you for sharing them.
They sound amazing, right?
You had me at Rachel Harrison! 🙂 Seriously, I’ll read whatever she writes, and this does sound amazing. Resistance of Witches looks great too! Another for the TBR…
Me too, so far she has yet to disappoint!
A Resistance of Witches is going right onto my TBR, I love that it has a Historical Element to it. Thank you for sharing
I don’t read much historical fantasy but for some reason this just sounds perfect for me.
A Resistance of Witches sounds really good.
Anne – Books of My Heart
It really does, I can’t wait to get to it.
All three of these sound great. I saw Coffin Moon and thought it was a third in a series he has going. I read “Smoke City” by the same author in 2018 and just reread my review and I really loved it. I will definitely be picking this one up. You know me and vampires!
I think Coffin Moon is a standalone. I just requested it on NetGalley so I hope it is since I haven’t read the other books.
These all sound great. Play Nice sounds really fun, I love new takes on haunted house stories!
I’m so excited for more Rachel Harrison!
I am looking forward to Play Nice! A Resistance of Witches sounds good too. I hope you enjoy all of these when you read them!
Thanks Wendy!
These all sound really good. I’m really drawn to the WWII witchy drama.
Lynn 😀
These look interesting. Hope you enjoy them!
Yes, I was excited to get an ARC of A Resstance of Witches too! Love that it’s got Louisa Morgan vibes.
Ooh another vampire book to add to the TBR. Always a good thing. I saw the word witches along with the pretty cover and was ready to add it to my list based on that along but I think the last book is actually already on there. Witches and nazis sounds very familiar so I’m going to have to check. I’m also intrigued by the Rachel Harrison one and hoping to check out Black Sheep before her newest is released. I hope you enjoy all of these.
I definitely NEED Play Nice. Coffin Moon also sounds like it needs to be on my list. And I am on the fence about the Witches one, but I do love the cover!
I vote for the new Rachel Harrison!