What Makes You Holy

<h4><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A priest in exile. A healer with no faith left to give. And a mountain that remembers everything.</strong></h4><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In the autumn shadow of 1921 Meg wants only peace.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A year has passed since she reclaimed her grandmother's cabin and began healing the wounded lives of those who still whisper her name with both gratitude and fear. She is no longer just the witch of Biddle Creek-but the quiet guardian of a mountain that watches waits and sometimes answers.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When Father Thomas Doherty arrives from Ireland to take up a long-abandoned mission he brings with him a rigid faith a broken soul and a secret he refuses to name. Haunted by the part he played in a child's death during the Irish struggle for independence Thomas believes the mountain is where he must redeem himself.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But the Mountain has its own intentions.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As illness returns to the hollow and old prejudices flare anew Meg and Thomas find themselves caught in a slow-burning trial-not of law but of belief. The ruins of the chapel hold more than dust and something beneath the soil is stirring.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In a land where sacred texts and folk magic run side by side they must each decide:</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What makes a thing holy? And who decides what should be saved?</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Fans of </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>The Once and Future Witches</em> <em>The Essex Serpent</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and Appalachian gothic fiction will be drawn into this quiet powerful tale of grief belief and uneasy grace.</span></p><p></p>