When Willows Weep

How would you react if you discovered you had special abilities and were thrust into an epic battle between good and evil?When spring arrives during twelve-year-old Willows sixth-grade year at Elm City Waldorf School in Keene New Hampshire she discovers she has the divine gift of Sight - a special ability to see things most dont such as peoples inner Light and the fae folk. A whole new layer of reality opens up to Willow but not all of it is good. Her recurring nightmare of an attacking horde of hellhounds feels like a premonition. The terrifying woman of darkness Gehenna is planning something horrible. Can Willow help stop these demonic forces? When Willows Weep is a contemporary fantasy exploring the intersections of compassion and combat faith and fantasy rejection and redemption free will and fate and ecology and education. It speaks primarily to a middle-grade and young adult audience but also to readers of all ages who are fans of Waldorf education people of faith or who just enjoy fantasy.