Jessica Fox’s debut novel The One That Got Away was released on May 28th by Little Black Dress and is the first of five in a “Hen Night Prophecy” series (where five different girls get their own puzzling prophecy at a friends’ hen night). The synopsis for The One That Got Away reads:

Zoe Piper adores her four best friends – Fern, Libby, Charlotte and Priya – so is thrilled when they can all make it to her hen night, where one of the girls arranges for a tarot-card reader to give them a reading individually. Afterwards, each one stumbles out a little dazed, perplexed by how spookily accurate the reader was, but each one keeps quiet about their own readings. In each of the five volumes of THE HEN NIGHT PROPHECIES we learn how their prophecies come true – this first book follows the fortunes of Fern, who is told that she has already met The One, but let him go…

The second in the series, Eastern Promises, will be released on the 26th November and the synopsis reads:

Priya’s prophecy, ‘In love, mother knows best…’ does not fit her fiercely independent, successful world. She’s fed up of her disapproving Hindu family’s constant meddling in her love-life. Distrusful of men ever since her betrayal by boss and ex-boyfriend Vic, she throws herself into work. When her new assignment leads her to India to document an ashram high in the hills, Priya hopes to find some much-needed serenity. But with mystery and secrets at its heart, she’s soon convinced something sinister is afoot. And with her feelings for attractive tour guide Noah complicating things further, Priya can’t help but wonder: is Noah really interested in her, or is he trying to distract her from finding out the truth?

The third, currently untitled, will be released in March 2010 and the synopsis reads:

Risk-taker Libby Foster wishes she thought things through more – maybe then she’d avoid being humiliated at work over her reckless romantic attachments. So it’s just as well that she’s swearing herself off men and escaping to a Thai island to work on location casting for a romance-slash-action film. But is she really such a danger to the opposite sex? A series of bizarre events in the serene beach surroundings have Libby fretting, but could it be she’s met her match in Craig, the daredevil martial arts instructor training her cast?

No news on the fourth and fifth volumes but I assume they’ll be released in 2010/2011. It sounds like an interesting series and one I’ll be looking out for!

Tags: jessica fox, Little Black Dress

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