Fiction – Horror – Psychological – Historical – African American & Black – Southern

RELEASE DATE: 6/9/2026 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER’S WAREHOUSE)

Mississippi, 1927. The groanings are coming.

No town is perfect, but East Cobb comes close. Its a wealthy all-Black Free Townuntouched by white oppressionwhere ambitious Thea Elliot and her husband plan to make good on their big dreams. Little do they know that the idyllic town teems with ghoulish, walking nightmares . . . that only the women can see.

Marah knows the groanings well. She is one of the carrierswomen with the ability to pull traumatic memories from men. Populated by men entirely freed of their pain, East Cobb has flourished, even as the remnants of their memories haunt the towns women. When an unexpected death drives Marah to discover more about her own power, Theas and Marahs worlds collide. The sisters must confront the rotten core at the heart of East Cobbs prosperity and choose whatand whowill survive the reckoning.

A gripping blend of historical fiction and Southern gothic psychological horror, Our Sisters Keeper is a fierce exploration of Black sisterhood, rage, and resistance.

AUTHOR BIO:

Jasmine L. Holmes is a historian, an educator, and the author ofYonder Come Day: Exploring the Collective Witness of the Formerly EnslavedandCrowned with Glory: How Proclaiming the Truth of Black Dignity Has Shaped American History. She lives in Jackson, Mississippi, with her husband and their three sons.