Julie Lew
loves all things fantasy and horror, the darker and queerer the better. Her adult gothic horror, The Wives of Herrick Hall, is forthcoming from Quill & Crow on May 5, 2026, and her YA fantasy mystery, Death in Verse, will be released in 2026 from Union Square Kids.
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The Wives of Herrick Hall
Coming to haunt a bookshelf (or e-reader) near you May 5, 2026.
Herrick Hall doesn’t let anything go without a fight. Least of all its masters’ dead wives…
After a dalliance with another woman leaves her reputation in shambles, Josephine Carter is banished to the isolated manor to serve as lady’s companion to Herrick’s mistress. Lady Nora Blake is a headstrong, capricious woman, who spends her days convalescing from a mysterious illness—and her nights witnessing her imminent death over and over. Shackled to her side, Josephine is certain life could not get worse. But then she meets the Herrick wives.
Ghosts veiled in shadow stalk the halls and trespass into Josephine’s dreams, trapped forever in the fury of their last dying wish: to destroy Herrick and everyone beneath its roof. Josephine determines to escape by any means necessary.
Until she and Nora fall in love.
Together, Josephine and Nora must confront Herrick’s curse to battle their way to freedom. But Herrick has already claimed them as its next ghostly brides, and neither the house nor its vengeful wives will relinquish them without bloodshed…