The Binding Spell

A debut atmospheric fantasy, think dark academia meets Mexican Gothic.
Morgan thinks her nightmares are over when she moves to Weir Hinny with her archaeologist father. She even befriends a local boy, Joe Harper, whose secrets seem as tangled as hers. And for a while, their time together is magic.

But when her father begins work on an ancient burial site – Morgan’s bad dreams return. With every relic he unearths, she sees a creeping horror emerge. A binding curse that binds them all . . .

* The debut novel from the Times/Chicken House 2023 award winner, historian and professor Marisa Linton.
* A stand-alone YA contemporary fantasy novel with folk horror elements, set in a creepy rural village.
* Spells, legends, druids and all things supernatural.