Coming 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…
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Praise for The Wives of Herrick Hall
“The Gothic lives or dies on its settings and its heroines, and in The Wives of Herrick Hall, Julie Lew has nailed both. Herrick Hall is a character in itself, bristling with menace and long-held secrets, and Josephine, Nora, and the ghostly wives are its worthy foils, harbouring compelling ambitions and desires of their own. The battle between the Hall and its wives is as cathartic as it is inevitable in this queer Gothic tale that creates a perfect harmony between its historic influences and its modern sensibilities.”
—MK Hardy, author of The Needfire
“Fierce, vivid, and haunting, The Wives of Herrick Hall is a gorgeous gothic novel with a sapphic love story that will consume you.”
—Victoria Hawthorne/Vikki Patis, bestselling author of The House at Helygen, The Darkest Night, and Girl, Lost
“The Wives of Herrick Hall is laudanum-level disorienting: a sensual, sapphic Gothic set in a beautiful house full of ugly secrets, with heroines who think themselves gone, or going, mad. But what woman could be called wicked, for what she does in desperation under a man’s mean thumb?”
—Briana Una McGuckin, author of On Good Authority
“This brilliant sapphic take on the Gothic genre has everything a reader could hope for: unearthly cries in the night, labyrinthine passageways, a heroine who is pushed to her limits, and mysteries piled on mysteries. The cursed mansion, like Daphne du Maurier’s Manderley, is a character in its own right, its ghosts as vivid as its living inhabitants. Nobody is quite what they seem, and Lew keeps the reader guessing—and rooting for the courageous heroine and her forbidden love—until the shattering and utterly satisfying conclusion.”
—Clarissa Harwood, author of The Curse of Morton Abbey
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