TELL ME MY FUTURE

A teenage girl is confronted with secrets from her mother’s past.

Sixteen-year-old Kessen Turner and her mother have never stayed anywhere long. Their latest move brings them to the small town of Delphine, Pennsylvania. They’re living in Madame Amalia’s Psychic Shoppe, which belongs to one of her mother’s old friends, but Amalia is lying unconscious in the hospital after a car accident. Surrounded by tarot cards and crystal balls, Kess senses that this move is different—and that Delphine holds pieces of her mother’s past that she’s never shared. As Kess adjusts to another new school, she cautiously opens herself up to friendship, forming a close bond with classmate Poppy and developing a tentative crush on a boy named Miles. Everything changes when a blow to the head during field hockey practice leaves her experiencing vivid, terrifying visions of catastrophic events. At first, Kess tries to dismiss them as symptoms of her injury, but as they start coming true, she’s forced to face them. As the visions intensify, she becomes convinced they’re connected to her mother’s secrets. Determined to uncover the truth, Kess digs deeper into her mother’s mysterious history while racing to understand the source of her frightening new ability and discover whether the future she’s seeing can be changed. Though the story initially unfolds slowly, the tension steadily builds, culminating in an explosive and satisfying conclusion. Main characters are cued white.

A well-executed and atmospheric debut.