Be swept away by a lush, witchy tale about forbidden magic and missing girls who don't need handsome princes to rescue them. Perfect for fans of The Hazel Wood.
Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette, weaving stories of girls who slayed dragons and saved princes. Then Maude grew up and lost her magicâand her best friend.
These days, magic is toothless, reduced to glamour patches and psychic energy drinks found in supermarkets and shopping malls. Odette has always hungered for forbidden, dangerous magic, and two weeks ago she went searching for it. Now sheâs missing, and everyone says sheâs dead. Everyone except Maude.
Storytelling has always been Maudeâs gift, so she knows all about girls who get lost in the woods. Sheâs sure she can find Odette inside the ruins of Sicklehurst, an abandoned power plant built over an ancient magical forestâa place nobody else seems to remember is there. The danger is, no one knows what remains inside Sicklehurst, either. And every good story is sure to have a monster.