THE CRYSTAL CON: A FORTUNE TELLER'S MISFORTUNE Paperback – March 10, 2026

Set in the shadows and backstreets of 1930s Sydney, The Crystal Con: A Fortune Teller’s Misfortune blends historical crime with a quiet, unsettling strand of the supernatural.Maria is a sharp‑witted fortune teller who survives not through mystic gifts, but through keen observation, psychology, and performance. Her Surry Hills parlour draws in the desperate and the wealthy alike — all seeking answers she invents with charm and precision. What none of them know is that Maria carries a truth she’s spent her life hiding: a First Nations heritage and a spiritual connection she refuses to acknowledge.Her carefully crafted world begins to crack the day she meets an old Aboriginal woman who sees straight through her act, and forces Maria to confront a reality she’s long denied: the dead talk, and they have plans for her.When a high‑society client arrives with questions she shouldn’t be asking, Maria’s instincts — sharpened by forces she doesn’t understand — pull her into the orbit of Sydney’s elite. Someone powerful is hiding something. Someone dangerous has noticed her. And someone is willing to do whatever it takes to keep their secrets buried.As the line between the living and the dead blurs, Maria must decide whether her greatest threat is the world she can see… or the one she’s tried her whole life not to. Read more