New Sapphic Gothic Romance: Maeve Hollow’s Haunted Shelf Keeps Growing (2026)
Nine days to Halloween, and the most haunted corner of the sapphic shelf keeps getting bigger. Maeve Hollow writes immortal women who have waited centuries to be asked and thoroughly modern heroines who walk in with a clipboard and refuse to be frightened on schedule — vampires, witches, houses that listen at the keyhole, and consent that’s the whole plot. Three more just dropped. All FF, all Inferno, all standalone.
A Curse Made for Two — her touch has burned everyone for a hundred years
Jo Rook appraises cursed objects for a living and lives by one rule: never touch anything with your bare hands. Hired to value the contents of a snowed-in manor, she grabs the hand of the woman who owns it — a witch whose touch has scorched everyone who got close for a century — and doesn’t even blister. Witch × appraiser, a 117-year age gap, an ice queen in gloves, a haunted manor, a storm that strands them, and a mystery underneath it all. The newest Maeve, and the best place to start. Read A Curse Made for Two →
The Vampire’s Private Detective — she hired me to solve a murder. Hers.
Sloane Barrett has three rules for clients: no lies, no touching, no wanting them. Lucasta Vale — who owns the most exclusive sapphic club in Saint Orison and pays in old money — breaks all three before she’s finished sitting down, and the cold case she wants solved is her own murder, in 1798. Vampire × private detective, noir mystery, immortal × mortal, butch × femme, explicit feeding, a control swap that goes both ways. If your gothic runs to rain-slicked streets and a femme fatale with fangs, this is the one. Read The Vampire’s Private Detective →
The Ex-Hex of Hollow House — she left me twenty years ago and hasn’t aged a day
Kit Mercer can fix almost anything — rotten beams, failing foundations, old houses abandoned by families with more money than sense. What she can’t fix is walking back into the house that belongs to the witch who left her two decades ago and hasn’t aged a day — a house that very much wants to keep her. Second-chance supernatural exes, witch × contractor, haunted house, only one bed, stolen memory, and a found family among the dead. The one that’ll break your heart before it fixes it. Read The Ex-Hex of Hollow House →
The shelf keeps growing
Maeve’s gothic world is deeper than three books. If these hook you, there’s a woman painted shut in a canvas for 159 years in The Portrait of Lady Ash, a town that keeps one woman every thirty years in The Coven’s Last Human, and a wedding planner who inherits a ghost wedding party in The Moonlit Bride. The whole haunted roster lives on the Maeve Hollow author page.
Want the rest of the spooky-season shelf, Maeve and beyond? Our Sapphic Paranormal Halloween roundup has vampires, curses, and one very haunted hayride. Browse everything at the Fractal Enigma bookstore, or read free with Kindle Unlimited.
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