Thorn and Silence

She inherited a cottage. She did not expect to inherit the magic that came with it.

Sylvie Sorrel came to the Cotswolds to disappear. After eighteen months of grief and a career that quietly ended, her grandmother's apothecary cottage in the village of Ashenmere offered exactly what she wanted: somewhere remote, half-forgotten, and entirely her own.

Then the woman next door is found dead in her garden, and the whole village agrees it was simply her heart.

Sylvie knows better. She just does not know how she knows.

Because Edith did not only leave her a cottage full of strange bottles and older secrets. She left her a gift Sylvie never knew ran in her blood: the quiet craft of a village witch, dormant and waiting. To uncover what really happened to Constance Hale, Sylvie will have to stop hiding inside her grief, learn the magic her grandmother left behind, and pay attention to a village that is very good at keeping its own counsel.

Including the wary detective next door, who has his own reasons for noticing too much.