She's haunted Thornwood Forest for four hundred years. Then one woman walks in—and the ghost who can't look away.
Wren doesn't remember being human. She only knows the forest is hers to protect, and that she died here long ago—condemned as a witch for loving the wrong person. For centuries, she's existed as mist and light, a solitary guardian. The dangerous ones who wander into her woods don't walk back out the same.
Then Mara appears: an anthropology student researching queer erasure in witch trial records. She walks into Thornwood without fear, sits down with her notebook, and says, "I know you're there. And I'm not afraid."
Wren can't stop watching her. Following her. Wanting her in a way she'd forgotten was possible.
As Mara uncovers the truth of Wren's death, memories surface—and with them, a dangerous possibility. Wren didn't just survive her execution. She transformed. She became what they called her: a witch, a monster, a force of nature. And she's been waiting four hundred years for someone brave enough to see her clearly.
Together, they'll discover that love can exist in the spaces between worlds. That becoming a monster on your own terms is its own kind of power. That sometimes the most dangerous love stories are the ones that refuse to apologize for existing.
A gothic sapphic love story about reclamation, devotion, and two women against the world.
For fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue**,** House of Hunger**, and** Mexican Gothic**.**
CONTENT WARNINGS: Death, suicide, historical persecution, homophobia, grief, violence (historical context)
