Ivy Fang
Ivy Fang is an author of horror and fantasy fiction. When she's writing, she’s usually digging into blood-spattered romance and families that weather every storm. Otherwise, she can be found playing video games or enjoying a Chinese drama. Her loved ones are convinced she is a cat working through one of her nine lives, which is why she is the way she is. She lives in the Bay Area.
This Is Not an Exorcism
When a con woman who poses as an exorcist is asked to perform her services at a bed and breakfast in wine country, she discovers something much worse than any ghost haunts the property.
Laurel Meng calls herself an exorcist, but she’s never performed a real exorcism. All she needs to secure her paychecks—spread ever thinner in the face of her mother’s mounting medical bills—is her white clients’ overactive imaginations and boundless ignorance.
So when Annie Shaye-Matsuda calls, convinced her late son Taika’s restless spirit is haunting her quaint bed and breakfast, Laurel is relieved to have found a new mark—not a moment too soon, given the mortgage payment she’s defaulted on. But when voices in the walls warn her to leave, she begins to suspect something far worse than Taika lingers in the bones of Poppy Creek Bed and Breakfast. And that something is intent on trapping her there.
Confronted with the real deal—crawling specters made of dirt, doors that lead nowhere, blood running through the plumbing—Laurel can’t fake her way out of this one. She must ally with a ghost to perform a true exorcism if she hopes to uncover the truth and escape with her money in hand. But secrets are buried amidst the flowerbeds of Poppy Creek, and if Laurel’s not careful, she’ll end up just like them… or worse.
For fans of Bring Her Back, Yellowface, and Pet Sematary, This Is Not an Exorcism is a novel about love, loss, and the horror that grows from them.
Publication
US: Macmillan (Tor Nightfire)
UK: Harper Collins (Hemlock Press)
Release date: April 2027
