From Edgar-nominated author Jess Lourey comes a lush thriller about a woman returning to the ancestral home she abandoned, where she reawakens echoes of a crime that no one wants to remember.

The Blackthorn women have always been the subject of whispers in Faith Falls, Minnesota. Witches, the locals say. Dangerous. Katrine Blackthorn has never believed in such small-town superstitions—magic is for fairy tales, not for women trying to survive in the real world.

Still, she couldn’t flee her hometown fast enough.

Yet fourteen years after vowing never to return, Katrine is driven home by betrayal, forced to face her past and the women still trapped in it: her mother, Ursula, who sees a threat in every stranger's smile; her estranged sister Jasmine, broken by something no one will name; and a niece she’s never met, whose untapped strength may be their only salvation.

Because the Blackthorn women have buried more than family secrets in the rich Minnesota soil.

Perfect for readers of The God of the Woods, Practical Magic, and Mexican Gothic, this richly layered gothic thriller about family, memory, and reckoning will haunt you long after the final page.