The Pyre Song

PRACTICAL MAGIC — but with rage, rebellion, and reckoning, set across centuries of magic and matriarchy, love and loss...

(narrated by the author)

It’s one thing to fear the dark, but quite another to know it lives inside you… Alva Hausmann has spent her life running from her magic. The echoes of another lifetime haunt her; a witch so feared her name still carries a curse. But when the magical council summons her to London for the global reveal of witchcraft, the past she buried refuses to stay silent – and neither does her rebellious twin sister: Ember Wild, the fiery heart of London’s witching underground. Presumed dead, she is now dangerously entangled with Mardequai Guise, the immortal druid who leads a powerful male order with no magic of their own and every intention of keeping witches under control.

As tensions ignite, Alva finds herself under the reluctant guard of Cornelis Kettering, a druid who despises her for the crimes of her past self yet can’t stop himself from saving her life. Together, they uncover a horrifying truth that binds the twins' fate directly to Mardequai's – and implicates every witch since the pyres of the Inquisition.

Now Alva must harness every ounce of her underdeveloped magic to survive, stop her sister from lighting the world ablaze – and history from repeating its burning past. But her greatest battle will be against the darkness smouldering within herself…

If you liked A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES by Deborah Harkness, THE CHANGE by Kirsten Miller, THE ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES by Alix E. Harrow, or WEYWARD by Emilia Hart, you will love THE FLAMES THAT FORGED US.