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In 1692 Salem, fear is more than a weapon. It is a living thing.
When eleven-year-old Mercy Blackwood finds a pig dead in the snow with its eyes turned white, she senses something is deeply wrong in the village. As accusations of witchcraft begin to spread and neighbors turn on one another, Mercy watches Salem descend into madness. Girls scream in meetinghouses, innocent women are dragged to jail, and the gallows rise against the gray New England sky. But Mercy knows the truth is darker than superstition.
Alongside her only friend, Patience Holt, a girl marked by a birthmark the village already mistrusts, Mercy uncovers signs of an ancient presence moving beneath the hysteria. It feeds on fear. It moves through the cold. And it has been waiting for the chaos of Salem to hide its hunger in plain sight.
As executions mount and the noose tightens around anyone who seems different, Mercy and Patience discover a terrifying secret: a hidden door in time may be the only escape. But if they open it, they risk unleashing the evil stalking Salem into another world, another century, and another generation unprepared for its arrival.
Hunted by suspicion, surrounded by death, and trapped in a village devouring itself, the girls must decide whether survival is worth the cost of carrying Salem's nightmare beyond their own time. What begins as a story of witch trials becomes something far more chilling: a battle against an ancient force that thrives whenever human fear turns neighbor against neighbor.
Blending historical horror, supernatural suspense, and dark folklore, Ash and Bone is a haunting novel of witch trials, buried evil, and two girls forced to stand against a darkness older than belief itself. In Salem, the dead are only the beginning..
When eleven-year-old Mercy Blackwood finds a pig dead in the snow with its eyes turned white, she senses something is deeply wrong in the village. As accusations of witchcraft begin to spread and neighbors turn on one another, Mercy watches Salem descend into madness. Girls scream in meetinghouses, innocent women are dragged to jail, and the gallows rise against the gray New England sky. But Mercy knows the truth is darker than superstition.
Alongside her only friend, Patience Holt, a girl marked by a birthmark the village already mistrusts, Mercy uncovers signs of an ancient presence moving beneath the hysteria. It feeds on fear. It moves through the cold. And it has been waiting for the chaos of Salem to hide its hunger in plain sight.
As executions mount and the noose tightens around anyone who seems different, Mercy and Patience discover a terrifying secret: a hidden door in time may be the only escape. But if they open it, they risk unleashing the evil stalking Salem into another world, another century, and another generation unprepared for its arrival.
Hunted by suspicion, surrounded by death, and trapped in a village devouring itself, the girls must decide whether survival is worth the cost of carrying Salem's nightmare beyond their own time. What begins as a story of witch trials becomes something far more chilling: a battle against an ancient force that thrives whenever human fear turns neighbor against neighbor.
Blending historical horror, supernatural suspense, and dark folklore, Ash and Bone is a haunting novel of witch trials, buried evil, and two girls forced to stand against a darkness older than belief itself. In Salem, the dead are only the beginning..