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(Release Date: April 17, 2025)

Coming April 2025!

A magical journey of second chances, hidden mysteries, and the unexpected enchantment of a small village—where love, loss, and the fae collide in the most surprising ways.

Elenna Kane gave her heart to Jamie, his farm, his needy rescue animals, and his rambling, impractical house. But after his death, she's left struggling to hold onto a life that feels increasingly impossible. 

Just when she’s ready to walk away, the village of Mullarkey Mills wraps her in its quirky embrace. As the seasons change, an old plow horse teaches her to hold onto joy. A wind phone becomes her bridge to Jamie’s memory even as she cautiously explores the possibility of new love. And the whispering woods begin to reveal their hidden truths, drawing Elenna into a shocking mystery that will open her eyes to the dark splendor of the fae living right under her nose.

Black Annis Year is a new cozy fantasy from the author of the Valkyrie Bestiary. Grab it now for a tale that will leave you believing in second chances, love that transcends time, and the wonder that’s always just beyond the trees.

 

Publishing Details

Title: Black Annis Year.
Series: The Fair Folk of Mullarkey
Release date: April 17, 2025
Genre: Cozy Fantasy

eBooks are now pre-ordering.

There will be no pre-order for paperbacks, but they will be available to buy a couple of days ahead of the eBooks. 

As always, I put the pre-order on sale, so that loyal readers save a bit of $$$. The price will increase on release day.

SNIPPET

 

If you head north on Highway 148 out of Gatineau, Quebec, winding along the beautiful Outaouais River for about an hour, then turn right at the old gold mine and trek for about ten clicks into the forest, you’ll come to a place that time forgot. 

Mullarkey Mills isn’t much of a village, just a cluster of centennial farm houses with Auntie Clare’s bakery and general store as its focus. Villagers can find anything from fresh pies to wine to cat food on Auntie Clare’s shelves. During the short summer, a chip wagon parks beside the store and picnic tables are set up with bright umbrellas. Everyone agrees that Frites Mullarkey has the best poutine in all of the Pontiac Region.

The Pishogue Shop shares the same dusty parking lot and caters to those looking for more eclectic gifts than Auntie Clare provides—gem stones, dream catchers, smudge sticks and anything else a modern witch might need. 

Across the street, tucked into a small park next to the bridge, two granite cenotaphs etched with the names of soldiers fallen during the great wars sit beside a decommissioned tank. In summers of old, children whose families cottaged along the Outaouais River would beg their parents to bring them to see the tank. Now, children would rather play with digital tanks and the village is much quieter for it.  

If you turn right at this intersection, you’ll cross a covered bridge with red peeling paint and the Bryce River. Following that road will eventually take you to Cedar Grove Inn, a hundred-year-old rambling hotel with a history of hauntings.

But if you turn left at Auntie Clare’s and drive just a little ways up Mill Road, you’ll find Equinox Rescue Ranch, home to three horses, one stubborn pig, two Mediterranean donkeys, three goats, four alpacas and the meanest llama this side of the Andes. Along with one retired guard dog and a clowder of barn cats. 
Equinox Farm was once Jamie Nolan’s pride and joy, until he drove his snowmobile into a tree. That was fourteen months and twelve days ago. 

Now the ranch belongs to his wife, and she has no idea how she’s going to care for it.

This is the story of Elenna Kane, reluctant animal rescuer, scribbler and wannabe spinner of tales. It is the story of the year she learned all about second chances from an old plow horse. It’s also the year she discovered that fairies are real.