Demons of the Night is a horror novel that asks: who gets to decide what is good and what is evil? It follows Docia, a young woman whose parents have gone to great lengths to hide the truth about who she really is. They want her to be a “good Christian woman” and believe secrecy is the only way to protect her. But their plan is about to backfire.
The cover of Demons of the Night was designed by my friend, author and artist Lance Savage, who created a fictionalized version of Holy Hill to reflect the novel’s dark atmosphere. Visit Lance’s website to see more of his work.
Docia longs for independence, for a life beyond her family’s overprotection. She wants normal experiences—friendships, romance, freedom. When Blane appears at a church lecture on demons, Docia is intrigued. But he’s there for the wrong reasons, and she quickly realizes that the life she desires may require confronting truths her parents have worked so hard to conceal. As the story unfolds, Docia must grapple with her identity, her morality, and the question of whether she can define herself outside the rigid framework her family imposes.
Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaefer is a horror novel that knows how to tell a gripping story while quietly dismantling the cultural myths propping it up. Scheduled to release on February 10, 2026, it’s the rare book that makes you start mentally planning your year-end “best of” list before you’re even finished reading. Trad Wife is an unsettling, deeply intelligent literary thriller that uses horror not just to disturb, but to say something urgent about womanhood, motherhood, and the performance of femininity in the age of social media.
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Camille Deming presents herself online as the ideal #tradwife: cooking from scratch, tending her homestead, centering her life around her husband and home. The problem is that she’s missing the one thing her followers—and the ideology she’s bought into—demand most: a baby. When Camille discovers a mysterious well behind her farmhouse and makes a wish, her desire is answered in ways that are grotesque, intimate, and impossible to undo. Her pregnancy brings skyrocketing engagement and validation, even as her body begins to change in frightening ways and her marriage quietly continues to rot.
Shame is a demon—and sometimes it takes more than holy water to drive it out. In This Is My Body, Lindsay King-Miller delivers a gut-punch of a horror novel that fuses family trauma, queer identity, and religious extremism into a story that’s as unsettling as it is compulsively readable. At its core, this is a book about how the shame we inherit can twist us, haunt us, and, if left unchecked, destroy us.
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Brigid, a gay single mom, has spent years keeping her daughter Dylan far from the influence of her fanatically Catholic family. But when Dylan begins experiencing violent, terrifying fits that seem eerily familiar to an incident from Brigid’s childhood, she does the unthinkable—she goes back. Back to the home she swore she’d never return to. Back to her manipulative, self-righteous Uncle Angus, the priest who once “saved” a girl through exorcism.
Ever wonder what would happen if the villain got the girl—and you rooted for it? Fantasy romance author Rosalyn Stirling has built a world where demons tempt, love defies the odds, and happily ever afters are anything but predictable. In this interview, she shares how fast-drafting helps her battle imposter syndrome, why she embraces all forms of storytelling, and what’s next for her wildly addictive Wild Shadows Series. Whether you’re already a fan or just discovering her work, you won’t want to miss this deep dive into Rosalyn’s writing world.
In Auctioned to the Vampire, barmaid Nemera risks everything to help a captive virgin vampire escape the underground pleasure market. What begins as an act of mercy turns into a steamy, intoxicating romance, fueled by desire—and venom. As danger closes in, she must choose between her own safety and the vampire who’s claimed her heart.
Q: Who are some of your favorite authors that you feel were influential in your work? What impact have they had on your writing? A: At heart, I’m just a romantasy fangirl who loves prancing about in my imagination for longer than might be socially acceptable. That said, I have so many authors whose books I love. And I think the way these stories captured my imagination is something I try to emulate in my own writing. One of my favorite series is ACOTAR (A Court of Thorns and Roses) by Sarah J. Maas. I am and will always be a Rhys girl. I also love Fourth Wing, Nevernight, and all of Katee Robert’s books.
Outside of romantasy, I really enjoyed Lights Out and Pucking Around (on the contemporary/dark romance side of things), manga, and web comics. I don’t believe there’s a “superior” form of media, and I think any way a person can find joy in the media they consume is perfectly valid, whether that’s books, magazines, comics, manga, graphic novels, tv shows, or anything else. Do what you love. As for the impact these various forms of media have had on my work… They taught me to let myself to unabashedly gush about stories and write what I love to read.
I am so excited about my writing right now! I just finished a rough draft of the second of two novel manuscripts that I plan to finish by the middle of this year!
It usually takes me some time to switch from writing mode to revising mode, but it really helps that I set one of the manuscripts aside and moved on to the next one before editing this time. Revisions are already going well, and I hope to have this manuscript ready to share with my creative writing workshop in just a few weeks!
How about I tell you what I’ve been working on so you can share in my excitement?
Project #1: Demons of the Night
I started this book quite some time ago when I had one of those dreams that was too good to not write it into a scene. This novel is very different from my last two. It’s an adult book that includes witches, demons, and philandering preachers. It’s a battle of good and evil, where it’s not always obvious which side is which.
At the center of this battle is Docia, a sheltered young woman whose father and step-mother are determined to keep her sequestered within the “safe” world of her grandfather’s church compound and seem unlikely to ever allow her to move forward into a life of her own choosing. Continue reading “I have two new #novels in the works!”→
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