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
Check out these three cover reveals I spotted last week!
This Is Not an Exorcism by Ivy Fang is a darkly funny, visceral debut about a Chinese American con woman posing as an exorcist, until one job becomes terrifyingly real – perfect for fans of Grady Hendrix, Monika Kim, and T. Kingfisher.
Laurel Meng calls herself an exorcist, but she’s never performed a real exorcism. All she needs to secure her paychecks—spread ever thinner in the face of her mother’s mounting medical bills—is her white clients’ overactive imaginations and boundless ignorance.
So when Annie Shaye-Matsuda calls, convinced her late son Taika’s restless spirit is haunting her quaint bed and breakfast, Laurel is relieved to have found a new mark. But when voices in the walls warn her to leave, she begins to suspect something far worse than Taika lingers in the bones of Poppy Creek Bed and Breakfast. And that something is intent on trapping her there.
Confronted with the real deal—crawling specters made of dirt, doors that lead nowhere, blood running through the plumbing—Laurel can’t fake her way out of this one. She must ally with a ghost to perform a real exorcism if she hopes to uncover the truth and escape with her money in hand. But secrets are buried amidst the flowerbeds of Poppy Creek, and if Laurel’s not careful, she’ll end up just like them.
For fans of Yellowface, Pet Sematary, and The Eyes are the Best Part, This Is Not an Exorcism is a novel about love, loss, and the horror that grows from them.
This is Not An Exorcism by Ivy Fang. Releases in April 2027 from Tor Nightfire. I am in love with this cover, and the story sounds pretty damn good too! I’m very excited to check out this debut:-)
From the author of Night’s Edge comes a dark, atmospheric, genre-blend of a novel following a young woman who is thrust into a deadly conspiracy that takes her across the Midwest and her own memory to understand what happened to her sister twenty years ago.
When Hazel was 13, her sister Kira disappeared. Obsessed with a strange paranormal encounter, Kira believed she received a coded message from another world, and the experience changed her and Hazel’s lives forever.
Twenty years later, Hazel remains haunted by anxiety, grief, and frequent, intense episodes of a cryptic déjà vu. When Hazel is introduced to a podcast called The Satellites, she realizes that others in her small Midwestern town had the same experience Kira did. Thrust into a conspiracy that may hold the key to Kira’s disappearance, Hazel reluctantly teams up with Silas, the mysterious man behind the podcast. And despite her best efforts to fight her attraction toward him, they tumble headfirst into a dark, twisted romance.
But then one of the Satellites is found dead. Then another. And the more Hazel and Silas investigate, the worse Hazel’s episodes get. Now, Hazel must unravel the truth of what happened to her sister and the Satellites before she becomes the next victim.
How To Disappear Completely by Liz Kerin. Releases in February 2027 from Poisoned Pen Press. I loved Night’s Edge, and I’m excited for Kerin’s new book. This sounds like a great combination of elements: a missing sister, a murder mystery, a touch of the supernatural and even some romance!
In this romantic, cozy fantasy debut a Nigerian witch must grapple with an ancient curse that will erase her family’s magic and doom her beloved bakery forever unless she finds her soulmate. Perfect for readers of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches.
Wahala (noun, Nigerian): Trouble; inconvenience; problem, bother
In Kamalu Lane, Nneka is a witch grappling with an ancient family find her soulmate or risk all the witches of Kamalu Lane losing their powers forever.
In a desperate attempt to force fate’s hand, Nneka brews a love potion, but chaos erupts when the potion is accidentally added to Nneka’s famous puff puffs, causing every man who eats them to fall in love with her, except Dakoru, the handsome architect determined to reshape Kamalu Lane.
Though Nneka feels an undeniable connection with Dakoru, she knows falling for a human could doom them both. But Dakoru is no ordinary man and it’s clear he is connected to magic in some way.
As their connection grows, Nneka needs to figure out if Dakoru is the key to breaking her curse and restoring balance to Kamalu Lane before its future is lost forever.
Love, Witches and Wahala by Christine Cowan. Releases in November 2026 from Orbit Books. This cover is calling to me! Yes, it looks like other covers in the cozy fantasy genre, but maybe that’s why it works. I’m excited about the Nigerian setting and characters, and I can’t wait to read it!
I love the sound of This is Not An Exorcism. I tend to really like those story whether it’s in books or movies where someone pretends to be an exorcist but then it becomes too real. Always hits good!