The Book of Witching
A mother must fight for her daughter's life in this fierce and haunting tale of witchcraft and revenge from the author of A Haunting in the Arctic. Clem gets a call that is every mother's worst nightmare. Her nineteen-year-old daughter Erin is unconscious in the hospital after a hiking trip with her friends on the remote Orkney Islands that met a horrifying end, leaving her boyfriend dead and her best friend missing. When Erin wakes, she doesn't recognize her mother. And she doesn't answer to her name, but insists she is someone named Nyx. Clem travels the site of her daughter's accident, determined to find out what happened to her. The answer may lie in a dark secret in the history of the Orkneys: a woman wrongly accused of witchcraft and murder four centuries ago. Clem begins to wonder if Erin's strange behavior is a symptom of a broken mind, or the effects of an ancient curse?
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A spooky gothic thriller
that is perfect for this time of year. I basically read this straight through in about 6 hours today. I always wonder how that must feel to an author who spent months, if not years, writing and researching a book and then readers just plow throw it in an evening. That just tells you how good the writing is. I continue to be enraptured by @cjcooke_author's writing. Especially how she researches and writes the settings and characters in her books.
This fictional story was based on research about a woman named Alison, who was burned for witchcraft in Northern Scotland in the Orkney Islands, late in the 16th century. Interestingly enough the Isle of Hoy, where my husband's last name originates, is also in the Orkney Islands and I would love to go and learn some of it's history because it seems fascinating.
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