Publisher's Synopsis
Somewhere in the Blue Ridge Mountains at the turn of the twentieth century, hidden within a clifftop forest known as the Wood, sits the village of N'other, a place of unrelenting heat, and home to an isolated nature cult. N'other and the Wood are magical places. But magic has two faces: the one that charms you, and the one that damns you.At the border where the village meets the forest lies Thelema Foretell, a young girl accused of offending the ancestral forest spirits known as the Firsts and offered up as a ritual sacrifice. Thelema waits for the prophecy that foretells the coming of the Firsts as a great storm...