Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams is a thrilling gothic horror novel about biracial twin sisters separated at birth, perfect for fans of Lovecraft Country and The Vanishing Half

As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were secretly separated after the brutal lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now, at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, Charlie is a young Black organizer in Harlem, while white-passing Magnolia is the heiress to a cotton plantation in rural Georgia. Read More ?

“I wasn’t ready for a pandemic book just yet. But Running to Fall isn’t just a pandemic book, though it opens in March of 2021, and the pandemic plays a role in the book. It’s not just a murder mystery either, though it begins with the discovery of the body of a missing young Black woman, Raven McCoy, floating in Chicago’s Grayson River, near the affluent gated community of Grayson Glens. Like one of Buckhanon’s early novels, Upstate, which I loved, there’s so much more going on than the bare bones of the plot. With prose so incisive and knowing, you feel the meaning of the words as much as you understand it, Buckhanon can infuse a mystery tale with strands of isolation, addiction, secrets, and women we allow to be forgotten, and it’s riveting.”
—Vannessa Cronin, Amazon Editor

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