​Megge's Story Begins

It is midnight in Bury Down grove, known for a thousand years as the Land of the Second Sight,
and young Megge has just come of age to receive her birthright:
an ancient tome whose encrypted incantations summon the power of Bury Down.
If she accepts, then her mother, the Healer of Bury Down, will teach her to wield power beyond her imaging.
If she refuses, her mother will die by flame, and the power will be lost.
Daunted by the sacred rite but wanting only to take her place as a true woman of Bury Down,
Megge reaches for the book.
But when she touches its wooden cover, a coarse voice whispers, "Murderer."
          
Winner of the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Award for Supernatural Paranormal Fiction
and the 2021 Independent Book Publishers' Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Fiction Audiobook.
Silver award for the IBPA Bill Fisher Prize for Best First Book.
An Independent Press NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite in Historical Fiction and Cover Design. 
Longlisted for the 2022 CIBA Chaucer Award for Early Historical Fiction (Winner TBA May 2023).

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