Earthbound

<p><strong>Earthbound: Whispers from the Bloodline</strong><br><strong>Author's Cut-Extended Edition</strong></p><p><em>Book One of Echoes of the Bloodline Flame</em><br>By Sandy Whitlow</p><p><strong>Some stories are etched in smoke. Others are written in blood. But every flame begins with a whisper. </strong></p><p>Lila Horne a solitary witch in the present day lives quietly in a woodland cottage-content to keep her magic simple and her past at bay she still feels a stirring a need to know. When the full moon rises and a forgotten sigil begins to stir she feels the pull to perform a ritual long sealed by silence: summoning the spirit of her ancestor Arabella Horne a woman executed for witchcraft during the 17th-century trials.</p><p>Arabella doesn't return as a guide but as a storm.</p><p>As ancestral shadows gather and the line between memory and magic blurs Lila must face the dark truth buried beneath her home-and within herself. What she uncovers will test the limits of her power the strength of her blood and the cost of remembering.</p><p><strong>The past isn't gone. It's waiting.</strong><br><strong>And the bloodline is awake.</strong></p>