Within These Walls: cover reveal

Cover of Within These Walls by Kirstyn McDermott. A night-time scene showing a lamp-lit window outside of which jasmine vines press against the glass. In the foreground, a semi-transparent woman stands with head bowed, ghostly in her white nightgown.

Exciting news, dearhearts! My next novel, Within These Walls, will be published in March 2027 and I can finally show you all the gorgeous cover. I’m literally finishing up the proofs now and I cannot tell you how much I’m looking forward to releasing her into the wild next year.

This is my second novel to be published by HQ Books and they have done such a wonderful job and been so incredibly supportive. In many ways, it has felt like coming home.

More soon, I promise, but for now I’ll leave you with a little teaser . . .

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Twin sisters Grace and Faith Oswald are returning to the isolated childhood home that – according to the terms of their estranged grandmother’s will – is now their inheritance. As long as they can stay there for one year and one day. It’s an odd caveat, but the sisters have good reasons for complying. Grace has lost her job, and struggling artist Faith needs to find somewhere she can paint in peace.

But from the moment they arrive, something feels wrong. There are noises in the walls, doors that swing open, and what sounds like footsteps in the night. Just peculiarities of an old house? Or more?

As Faith’s art becomes all encompassing, and Grace’s dreams more vivid, they discover their grandmother’s journals and begin to unearth the terrible family secrets hidden in their pages. What haunts the Lyondale house? And what does it want from Gracie and Faith?

The answers they seek will strain the sisters’ bond and unleash a darkness that may be their undoing. Because a house may not be all they have inherited . . .

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