Mist and Memory
Heather Salter-Purves
Heather Salter-Purves
She's haunted Thornwood Forest for four hundred years. Then one woman walks in—and the ghost who can't look away.Wren doesn't remember being human. She only knows the forest is hers to protect, and that she died here long ago—condemned as a witch for loving the wrong person. For centuries, she's existed as mist and light, a solitary guardian. The dangerous ones who wander into her woods don't walk back out the same.Then Mara appears: a sociology student researching queer erasure in witch trial records. She walks into Thornwood without fear, sits down with her notebook, and says, "I know you're there. And I'm not afraid."Wren can't stop watching her. Following her. Wanting her in a way she'd forgotten was possible.As Mara uncovers the truth of Wren's death, memories surface—and with them, a dangerous possibility. Wren didn't just survive her execution. She transformed. She became what they called her: a witch, a...
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