Raquel Y. Levitt
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Raquel Y. Levitt holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a master’s degree in English. Her debut novel The Seer has been awarded winner of the 2025 American Fiction Awards in the Cross-Genre category, the 2025 Readers’ Favorite Book Award in the Paranormal category, and a finalist in the 2025 IAN Book of the Year Award. It is currently short-listed in the 2025 Chanticleer Shelley Awards and long listed in the 2025 Chanticleer Goethe Awards. Her short stories have been published in literary journals and anthologies, including the multi-award-winning Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women. Besides being a writer, Raquel is an avid reader, book hoarder, world traveler, amateur nature photographer, birder, and collector of cool rocks.
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The Seer
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Historical Women's Fiction
Missouri, 1896. Sarah Richardson, a clairvoyant, watches in horror as her only sister is thrust into a carriage bound for the St. Louis City Lunatic Asylum. She is devastated to learn her sister has been blamed for her inadvertent role in an abused woman's murder. Too frightened to speak up, Sarah hides the truth that it should have been her in that carriage. When her mounting guilt becomes too much, she heads to St. Louis, determined to regain her sister's confidence and prove herself worthy of forgiveness. While working to heal their relationship, Sarah begins to have troubling psychic visions of a timid housewife who tries but fails to hide her bruises. Sarah sees it as an opportunity to atone for her past mistakes. She embarks on a perilous journey to help the woman and salvage her relationship with her sister. It's a decision that might cost her freedom, and her life. 
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