Form: Novel

Genre: YA Horroromantasy

Comps: The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrew, A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid, Conversion by Katherine Howe

Summary: 

They say when Witch City is asleep, the sea begins to sing.

A year ago, Ann Morrissey was at the top of the world: facing down high school graduation as one of the brightest in her class and her place at a top liberal arts college waiting for her. But that was then, this is now.

Unbeknownst to her family, Ann’s freshman year was a disaster and she is unwillingly taking a semester off. Her frantic efforts to get her life back on track are thrown farther off course when her beloved grandmother and accomplished historian, Clara Morrissey, dies.

Before her death, Clara was working on a theory that nearly got her excommunicated from the academic community. She was determined to prove that the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were truly touched by the supernatural.

Ann is skeptical that her grandmother’s theory of magic has any weight, but she does believe that Clara knew something about the women of Salem no one else did. With the intent to earn her way back to the top ranks of academia, Ann takes up her grandmother’s research under the guise of clearing out Clara’s home.

With the help of a peculiar young fisherman who knew her grandmother, Ann finds herself untangling a web of impossibilities that connects her family to the long-lost ‘Salem Witches’—and to the sea beyond the coast.