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 SIX

MAEVYTH

“ T hat had to be the most grotesque thing I’ve ever seen in my life.” Aleysia dabbed a cold cloth against my temple, as I sat in the parlor of the mortuary and watched a small crowd mingle. Much of the parish had apparently departed after the ceremony, but about half a dozen women stayed behind. Agatha’s few acquaintances from town, undoubtedly on the hunt for gossip about the bedeviled Bronwick girl who’d passed out. And looking to buy the morumberry oil that I should’ve been selling in the kitchen right then.

Seeming to catch onto my preoccupations, Aleysia sent a quick glance over her shoulder, toward the women who gawped at the two of us. “Don’t mind them, the gossipmongers.”