The Binding Spell
Marisa Linton
Extract
The local people called it Pouka Hill, the place of the evil spirits. They said it was haunted by the most dreaded demon of all – the Pouka King. But that day, under the hot June sun, the hill lay quiet.
Little Nancy crawled through a bed of bracken, nibbling at raspberries as she filled her apron pocket. Red juice smeared across her mouth like a bloodstain. A shadow fell across her. She looked around. A tall man had come soft-footed over the grass and stood behind her. She didn’t recognize him, but she could see from his fine clothes that he was no farmer.
He took off his velvet cap and bowed low, as though she were a maiden of good family and not a peasant girl.
‘Good day, little one,’ he said, smiling. ‘What is your name?’
‘Nancy Hopton, sir.’
About the book
A debut atmospheric fantasy, think dark academia meets Mexican Gothic.
Morgan hopes her nightmares are behind her. Meeting Joe Harper helps. His secrets seem as tangled as hers and their time together is magic.
But Morgan's bad dreams return when her archaeologist father begins work at a local burial site. With every relic he unearths, a creeping horror emerges – a spell that binds them all . . .
- The debut novel from the Times/Chicken House 2023 award winner, historian and professor Marisa Linton.
- A stand-alone YA contemporary fantasy novel with folk horror elements, set in a creepy rural village.
- Spells, legends, druids and all things supernatural.
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