Anathema (The Eating Woods)

Anathema (The Eating Woods)

Author: Keri Lake Listening Length: 20h 13m
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From the author of Nocticadia comes a spellbinding gothic dark fantasy about a shunned woman who is forced beyond the mortal realms forbidden boundary, into a terrifying world of cursed souls and grotesque creatures. Only the banished know what lies beyond the woods There are whispers about what lurks in Witch Knell—t...

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CHAPTER THREE

MAEVYTH

I gave one more backward glance toward the forest behind me.

“Come,” Lolla said, locking her arm in mine and urging me across the stony road that divided the woods from the two-story cottage covered in moss and vine. Aside from The Crone Witch’s hovel, the nearest dwelling was over two thousand paces away–steps I’d counted a number of times on the way to town—because no one else gambled to live so close to The Eating Woods. It just so happened to host the perfect soil for morumberries, which had made it impossible for grandfather to resist, in spite of the rumors of what lived amongst the trees. Our cottage sat on the outskirts of Foxglove, in the rural parts, far enough from town to feel completely isolated, but still close enough to feed gossip.