“With her latest novel, DeMeester channels raw unbridled rage through a diabolical curse that connects three women across centuries.”
Anne Bolton is facing persecution for witchcraft. A healer by trade, Anne sets a bargain with a dark entity for protection. The fire unleashed from Anne’s bargain reverberates for centuries.
Mary Shephard, the picture-perfect wife stuck in a suffocating community, falls in love with Sharon. This forbidden affair could destroy them both.
Rebellious Camilla Burson defies her preacher father, and conformist expectations, and uncovers an arcane power as her father’s congregation spirals into chaos.
Three women. Three centuries. One legacy of fury, love, and a power that refuses to die.
Why we’re excited about this book:
New fiction from Kristi DeMeester in any genre is a great reason to celebrate. The author of Such a Pretty Smile and Beneath, DeMeester’s short fiction is collected in Everything That’s Underneath: A Collection of Weird and Horror Tales, and has been featured in such publications as Shock Totem, Black Static, Tales from a Talking Board, Lost Films, Best Horror of the Year Vol. 12, and Nightmare Magazine among others. With her latest novel, DeMeester channels raw unbridled rage through a diabolical curse that connects three women across centuries. Michael Wehunt (The October Film Haunt) says: “With Dark Sisters, Kristi DeMeester cuts under the skin of our devastating era and leaves us with frightening scar tissue, line by poetic line. A painful cry of rage against the cruel greed of men and a call to arms for women to declare their worth, this necessary novel uses the lens of horror as a weapon in the hand of a warrior. As beautifully written as it is teeming with creepy imagery, you won’t be the same if you make it out.” and Rachel Harrison (Play Nice) says Dark Sisters is: “A beautifully written, mesmerizing horror epic that sparks with compassion, insight, and righteous anger. This book is a bonfire, a beacon, a balm, a rallying cry. Fierce and unflinching, tender and profound, genuinely frightening, with swift pacing and a taught, deftly threaded narrative. Magnificent.”
Releasing from St. Martin’s Press 9 December 2025, Dark Sisters by Kristi DeMeester is available for pre-order now.
BOB PASTORELLA
