Marion (Pre-Order June 2nd 2026)

Marion by Leah Rowan (Pre-Order June 2nd 2026) 

A bold, feminist reimagining of Hitchcock’s Psycho—where the woman in the shower doesn’t die, but fights back.

Marion Crane was never supposed to survive the night. But in Marion, Leah Rowan flips one of cinema’s most infamous moments on its head, transforming a doomed blonde into a dangerous, unforgettable heroine.

Marion is already in too deep. Desperate to help her sister escape an abusive marriage, she steals money from the Manhattan ad agency where she works and flees the city, heading for Saratoga Springs. When her bus breaks down late at night, the only vacancy she can find is a remote cluster of roadside cabins on the edge of town. She pays in cash and chats with Norm Billings, the handsome, awkward innkeeper with an unsettling devotion to his elderly mother.

Back in her room, Marion steps into the shower—until the curtain is yanked aside.

Norm is holding a knife.

But this time, the story changes. Marion fights back. She kills him. And suddenly, she’s not just a thief on the run—she’s a murderer with blood on her hands and no clear way out.

As Marion flees across the country, she must navigate a tightening web of danger, guilt, and discovery. How far will she go to save herself—and her sister? And what buried truths will surface as she outruns the life she left behind?

Marion is a gripping literary crime novel that interrogates violence, agency, and survival, asking a radical question: What if the victim had seized control of the story? Smart, suspenseful, and fiercely revisionist, Leah Rowan’s novel turns a cultural touchstone inside out—and gives its heroine the ending she was never allowed to have.