The Midsummer Women

  THE MIDSUMMER WOMEN  is available now for pre-order. Publication date is 4 June 2024!  The Blurb: Since childhood, Ethnobotanist Hannah Heronstone has
had a passion for healing plants and their use through the centuries. Orphaned
at birth, she’s unaware of her connection to an ancient lineage of cunning
women, healers, and yes, even witches. But they have not forgotten about
her.    A surprise invitation to an archaeological dig lures
Hannah to Maine and the site of a long forgotten English colony, abandoned in
1608. The presence of Dr. Peter Wentworth, rich, charming, and a recent fling,
is an intriguing complication. But the thrill is cut short as the dig is
plagued by accidents and attacks while bizarre visions disturb Hannah’s days
and strange dreams fill her nights. Questioning her sanity, she turns to a trio
of local women, who claim descent from a sisterhood of natural healers and
practitioners of earthly magic, the Midsummer Women.     Together they help Hannah connect with the past, to
Anna, a young, cunning woman forced into servitude by the powerful Wentworth
family. Against her will, she sails to the new world with her hated master.
When Anna breaks her healer’s vows by using the black magic of a local demon,
she taints the blood and lives of her Heryonstan descendants.    To save the man she loves and restore her bloodline to
the sisterhood, Hannah must resist the growing power of the demon, Tando, and
learn to harness the dormant magic of the Midsummer Women or be doomed to
follow in her ancestor’s fate.