January 2026 - Alison Ver Halen

King of Ashes

If The Godfather had been about a black family in a Virginian small town, it would have been this phenomenal book.

Is Addie’s victory over Jessica complete? Or can Jessica still show her up by having the bigger, more extravagant funeral?

The main character of this book keeps getting second chances despite having done nothing to earn them, but I was OK with it.

Can you have too many candles when you’re trying to exorcise a really stubborn, really annoying ghost? Jessica is about to find out.

This is a horror story with all the best elements of a good horror story, rooted in a revenge story, and it’s so good!

Jessica is so desperate for help she’s willing to pay real money to a psychic, even though she thinks all psychics are a scam.

Your cousin’s fiancée, for whom you secretly have the hots, sneaks into your house and tries to kill you. What do you do?

First, I can’t get on social media. Now I can’t even watch TV? That’s the last straw. This ghost has got to go.

One girl’s search for a secret abortion leads to meetings with the most famous musicians and activists of 1960.