A contemporary fantasy YA debut from Rochelle Hassan about monsters, magic, and wicked fae, perfect for fans ofThe Darkest Part of the ForestandThe Hazel Wood.
As the only hedgewitch in Blackthorn, Massachusettsan uncommonly magical placeAziza El-Amin has bargained with wood nymphs, rescued palm-sized fairies from house cats, banished flesh-eating shadows from the local park. But when a dark entity awakens in the forest outside of town, eroding the invisible boundary between the human world and fairyland, run-of-the-mill fae mischief turns into outright aggression, and the dangerto herself and othersbecomes too great for her to handle alone.
Leo Merritt is no stranger to magical catastrophes. On his sixteenth birthday, a dormant curse kicked in and ripped away all his memories of his true love. A miserable year has passed since then. He's road-tripped up and down the East Coast looking for a way to get his memories back and hit one dead end after another. He doesn't even know his true love's name, but he feels the absence in his life, and it's haunting.
Desperate for answers, he makes a pact with Aziza: hell provide much-needed backup on her nightly patrols, and in exchange, shell help him break the curse.
When the creature in the woods sets its sights on them, their survival depends on the aid of a mysterious young necromancer theyre not certain they can trust. But theyll have to work together to eradicate the new threat and take back their hometown... even if it forces them to uncover deeply buried secrets and make devastating sacrifices.
Rochelle Hassangrew up reading about dragons, quests, and unlikely heroes; now she writes about them, too. She is the author of the middle grade novel
The Prince of Nowhereand young adult fantasy novel,
The Buried and the Bound. She lives in New York.
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