Weyward

In 2019 Kate flees London at night for the ramshackle Weyward Cottage she inherited from a great-aunt, seeking distance from an abusive partner. The cottage's tumbling ivy and overgrown garden feel like refuge, but Kate suspects a secret rooted in the house, hidden since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. In 1619 Altha faces trial accused of causing a farmer's death; she learned her family's magic from her mother, a practice grounded in deep knowledge of the natural world. In 1942 Violet lives in a crumbling family estate, denied the education her brother receives and haunted by a locket and the word weyward scratched into a baseboard.