A grieving witch must partner with an Imperial witch-hunter to solve a string of disappearances.
Calphernia Musgrov is a witch in the Five Counties, where the old ways are falling out of favor and the people who practice them are fading with them. Since her husband’s death, she has kept to herself and kept her magic quieter still.
Then people begin to vanish from the village of Wallem.
Vesin Eldrade has crossed the border from the Empire to hunt witches. She is driven by faith and bound by duty. But the trail leads somewhere her faith never prepared her to go, and the only person who can follow it is exactly the kind of woman she came to burn.
Spirits are stirring in forgotten places. The old protections are failing. And above the Wilds, a red star burns again.
Cal wants redemption. Vesin wants control. To find the missing, a witch the world has stopped needing must trust the hunter sent to end her kind.
Ending type: to be continued. This book has a complete plot arc, but is the first in a series.
