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Dark Sisters

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Description

Three women must chase a curse through the generations in order to reclaim their power in this fierce and stunning novel from Such a Pretty Smile author Kristi DeMeester.

1750: Anne Bolton sets off with her daughter to begin a life of secrecy. In town, they are killing women accused of witchcraft every day, and as a healer, she’ll soon be persecuted too. But then she makes a deal with a powerful dark entity to protect those under her purview–and unleashes a devastating power with consequences that will echo for three hundred years.

1953: Mary Shephard is a new mother, a picture-perfect wife, and dutiful member of The Path–a community of faith that holds piety and family values above all else. But Mary feels oppressed by these limiting expectations, so she takes a part-time job. Then she meets Sharon, and their star-crossed love story begins. But that’s the thing about star-crossed lovers–people just want to tear you apart.

2007: Camilla Burson is the preacher’s daughter, and she knows how to play the game. But now women in The Path are dying of a rare disease, including her mother, and this time she’ll push her father too far. Her punishment: The Retreat, a place that shows troublemakers like Camilla that toeing the line is best for everyone. But there is an old, forgotten power awaiting her; a power that if Camilla can claim, will change everything.

"Magnificent.” - Rachel Harrison

"A visceral, mesmerizing nightmare. I couldn't look away." - Hannah Morrissey

Product Details

PublisherSt. Martin's Press
Publish DateDecember 09, 2025
Pages304
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9781250286819
Dimensions234.9 X 6.1 X 1.0 inches | 1.0 pounds

About the Author

Kristi DeMeester (she/her) is the author of Dark Sisters, Such a Pretty Smile, which was selected as a Georgia Author of the Year finalist, and Beneath. Her short fiction has appeared in publications such as The Dark, Black Static, multiple volumes of The Year’s Best Horror, Year’s Best Weird Fiction, and in her short fiction collection Everything That’s Underneath. She lives, writes, and makes horror-themed candles in Atlanta, Georgia. Find her online at www.kristidemeester.com.

Reviews

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“Kristi DeMeester returns with Dark Sisters, a hauntingly beautiful exploration of revenge, feminine rage, and the secrets that bind women across time. Told in three equally eerie narratives, Dark Sisters reminds us that the past and present are inextricably linked—and in the end, the women won't be silenced. Frightening, subversive, and provocative.” – Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author The Lost Apothecary and The London Séance Society

“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.” – Rachel Harrison, USA Today bestselling author of So Thirsty

"Dark Sisters is a generational epic that burns through the centuries with pure literary fury. This is an incandescent novel of white hot heat, of scorching reclamation, where every page blazes with Kristi DeMeester's heart. The absolute rapture of this book cannot be denied because it can hardly be contained within its binding. I'm in awe." – Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

"Dark Sisters is a righteous, eerie, triple helix feat of storytelling that's as full of fury as it is, well, bewitching." – Nat Cassidy, author of Mary and When the Wolf Comes Home

"Both a scathing criticism of purity culture and a suspenseful supernatural thriller full of willful women, wicked witches and malicious men, Dark Sisters is sure to enrage and empower in equal measure." – Johanna Van Veen, author of Blood on Her Tongue and My Darling Dreadful Thing

"A visceral, mesmerizing nightmare about womanhood and the blood that binds. Dark Sisters will haunt you and break your heart. I couldn't look away." – Hannah Morrissey, author of Hello, Transcriber

“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.” – Michael Wehunt, author of The October Film Haunt and Greener Pastures

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