The Last Witch on the Knock

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In need of a fresh start, Thomasin leaves her toxic boyfriend, absent father and empty friendships behind and spends the summer in the Scottish Highlands with her eccentric Aunt Agnes and her stern young cousin, Nina. The fields and ragged hills promise distance, but something in the land still thrums with an older harm, a secret that has cursed it for generations.

Three hundred years earlier, Kate McNiven labours in the Big House by Knock hill, wishing for a brighter life far from the lecherous clutches of the Laird. When she refuses to succumb to his advances, she is exiled as a witch, and the punishment is meant to erase her. Instead, it creates a different kind of passage.

Kate finds the escape she has been denied in Thomasin, whose vulnerable body becomes her unwilling host. In the thin place between centuries, a pulsing wound begins to open, and the truth of what happened is finally ready to surface.