Emily Carpenter's Blog
October 13, 2025
Cover Reveal Coming Soon!
Attention SUSPENSE LOVERS!
My upcoming suspense novel A SPELL FOR SAINTS AND SINNERS (March 2026), will soon have a cover! I'm so excited to share it and hope y'all will add to your shelves.
Here's the lowdown:
In this eerie novel of Southern Gothic psychological suspense set amid the lush, moss-draped beauty of Savannah, a young psychic on the verge of losing everything is drawn into a friendship that grows dangerously obsessive . . .
In front of an elegantly shabby townhouse on a Savannah side street sits a hand-painted sign: Miss Edie, Psychic. Ingrid White inherited the house and business from her beloved grandmother, a local celebrity in town. But unless Ingrid can find a way to pay for crushing property taxes and mounting repairs, she’s going to lose them both.
Ingrid has faith in the homespun witchcraft Edie passed down to her, yet hope and clients are dwindling. . . . Until Sailor Loeffler’s bachelorette party changes everything. Sailor is local royalty—part of the vast “Savannah Sauce” empire, beautiful and wealthy beyond imagining—and Ingrid’s reading is so accurate that she becomes the bride-to-be’s confidante. To keep that access and all the privileges it brings, Ingrid relies more and more on hexes and dark spells—using the baneful magic Edie always warned her against.
As Ingrid works even riskier spells, she is drawn further into the Loefflers’ inner circle and the obstacles in her path melt away. But is it witchcraft or other, more earthbound forces? Ingrid can feel the lines blurring even as her powers seem to grow, until she must confront the truth about just how far some people, including herself, will go to keep the life they’ve always wanted . . .
More to come!
x Emily
My upcoming suspense novel A SPELL FOR SAINTS AND SINNERS (March 2026), will soon have a cover! I'm so excited to share it and hope y'all will add to your shelves.
Here's the lowdown:
In this eerie novel of Southern Gothic psychological suspense set amid the lush, moss-draped beauty of Savannah, a young psychic on the verge of losing everything is drawn into a friendship that grows dangerously obsessive . . .
In front of an elegantly shabby townhouse on a Savannah side street sits a hand-painted sign: Miss Edie, Psychic. Ingrid White inherited the house and business from her beloved grandmother, a local celebrity in town. But unless Ingrid can find a way to pay for crushing property taxes and mounting repairs, she’s going to lose them both.
Ingrid has faith in the homespun witchcraft Edie passed down to her, yet hope and clients are dwindling. . . . Until Sailor Loeffler’s bachelorette party changes everything. Sailor is local royalty—part of the vast “Savannah Sauce” empire, beautiful and wealthy beyond imagining—and Ingrid’s reading is so accurate that she becomes the bride-to-be’s confidante. To keep that access and all the privileges it brings, Ingrid relies more and more on hexes and dark spells—using the baneful magic Edie always warned her against.
As Ingrid works even riskier spells, she is drawn further into the Loefflers’ inner circle and the obstacles in her path melt away. But is it witchcraft or other, more earthbound forces? Ingrid can feel the lines blurring even as her powers seem to grow, until she must confront the truth about just how far some people, including herself, will go to keep the life they’ve always wanted . . .
More to come!
x Emily
July 9, 2019
November 19, 2015
Hello Goodreads!
It's been a while since I've logged in on Goodreads, to update my reading list, and I notice some of the books I was reading…I gave up on. Not because they weren't wonderful, but because I either got sidetracked by life or they weren't the exact type of work I was in the mood for at the moment.
l am actually reading a book called Saint Joan right now that my sister gave me. Also, I'm midway through a book of Flannery O'Connor's short stories AND Lauren Groff's FATES AND FURIES.
Okay, maybe this is my problem…I read too many things at once. I am also supposed to be rereading my latest manuscript for more revisions.
I need a vacation so I can read all the books!
l am actually reading a book called Saint Joan right now that my sister gave me. Also, I'm midway through a book of Flannery O'Connor's short stories AND Lauren Groff's FATES AND FURIES.
Okay, maybe this is my problem…I read too many things at once. I am also supposed to be rereading my latest manuscript for more revisions.
I need a vacation so I can read all the books!
