It is the night that will change everything, and we wait unsettled –
This third novel by acclaimed author Leah Weiss is the tale of a powerful crone, two women cut from the same cloth of loss, and an ancient healing sisterhood. Fans of CREEK and HOPES will love this story that goes beyond the first two books and draws back the veil so they understand more.
Welcome to Baines Creek a humble hamlet hidden deep in Appalachia where the last one-room schoolhouse in North Carolina is closing. It’s the summer of 1980 and Kate Shaw has taught for ten years. A skeptic at heart, she rejects the superstition and folklore that surrounds her and painfully remains an outsider. But when the powerful witch Birdie Rocas dies, she chooses Kate to leave her Books of Truth and a priceless treasure that spans centuries. Kate is thrown into a world that overwhelms her.
Enter Lydia Brown, a librarian and psychic with a curious birthmark whose visions stopped the day her parents died. Grief-stricken and desperate for spiritual guidance, she travels to remote Baines Creek to search for Birdie and answers. Kate and Lydia unite to unearth Birdie’s riddles that span centuries and cross oceans. Ultimately the women are guided to the powerful discovery that heals them.
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