The Devil's Diamonds

<h4><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Some call for coal. The Mountain calls for blood.</strong></h4><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In the winter of 1923 the mining town of Pine Lick is held together by sweat silence and superstition. At its edge stands Meg Taylor-herbal healer spiritual guardian and reluctant witch of Biddle Creek-shouldering the unspoken weight of other people's needs. When a deadly mine collapse tears through the community Meg must confront not only the physical cost of greed but the unraveling of her own faith in the Mountain she once trusted.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As survivors bury their dead and rumors swirl through the hollows Meg retreats from the world shattered by grief and exhaustion. Her closest allies-Father Thomas Lizzie Dermott and the people she once healed-struggle to hold the pieces together. But some burdens can't be shared. And some disappearances echo louder than any prayer.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In a land where sacrifice is carved into the stone how much can one woman give before the Mountain takes it all?</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Devil's Diamonds</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a powerful tale of endurance loss and the quiet revolutions of the soul. With haunting prose and fierce compassion Helen Ashford delivers the most emotionally shattering entry yet in </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Witch of Biddle Creek</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> series-where the earth remembers everything and not all spirits rest easy.</span></p><p></p><p></p>