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Not one of the burned is a witch.
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Scotland, 1590. A storm all but drowns the king on his way home with his bride, and the whisper runs that witches raised it. In the low country of Lothian the fires begin, and the innocent burn by the score.
Elspeth Craw, an aging healer who can feel the true craft living in another soul, is forced to serve the hunt as a searcher of the accused; and she alone knows the terrible thing beneath it. Not one of the burned is a witch. The whole slaughter is a working, and a real hand steers it, paying a monstrous debt in the only coin it takes, which is life.
To speak the truth is impossible, for it is the very name the whole court already screams. To end it will cost her the one thing she has hidden all her life.
A novel of the North Berwick witch trials, and of a death no one will ever understand.
Details
- Beverly McLeod
- Trace Press
- The Falcon's Binding, a standalone novel
- Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 202 pages
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Cover art: The Examination of a Witch, Tompkins Harrison Matteson, 1853. Public domain.