The Seven Miracles of Beatrix Holland

A ＂warm, witchy, and wonderful＂ family story that is the queer love-child of Practical Magic and The Parent Trap as one woman is about to discover that she’s a witch (Sarah Beth Durst).

Beatrice Barnard doesn’t believe in magic. She definitely doesn’t believe the predictions of the celebrity psychic who claims that she will experience seven miracles and that she will die. And as it turns out, her husband is cheating on her. Bea, now in desperate need of solitude, flees to Skerry Island, off the Pacific Northwest coast. Immediately upon arrival, she finds her life on the line as a rogue woodchopper blade almost kills her. Her survival is almost like a miracle.

And then things get more miraculous when she discovers her twin sister, Cordelia, and her mother, Astrid, who supposedly died when Beatrice was two years old. Astrid and Cordelia reveal that Beatrice (given name Beatrix) is an immensely powerful witch who can commune with the dead. When Cordelia and Beatrice’s twin magic is joined, it shines like a beacon on the malevolent spirits who are locked in an age-old struggle for magical dominance over the Hollands.

Beatrice doesn’t know what to believe, but she begins to fear that the seven predicted miracles may occur and that her death is near. But when her niece, Minna, goes missing, Bea’s own life suddenly seems much less important. Beatrice must join her mother andher sister to save Minna even if she dies in the process.

Rachael Herron has published romance with Avon, upmarket women’s fiction with Berkley, memoir with Chronicle, and, most recently, thrillers, under the name R.H. Herron, with Dutton. She is a dynamic member of the writing community who teaches both fiction and memoir writing and hosts the popular podcast ＂How Do You Write?＂ A dual US/NZ citizen, Rachael escaped to New Zealand with her wife during the pandemic; they now live in Wellington.