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Castle of Sighs by Jennifer Murgia

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Also by Jennifer Murgia:

When I Was Alice, November 2025
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Castle of Sighs, November 2015
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CASTLE OF SIGHS
By: Jennifer Murgia

Hedge Witch #2
Spencer Hill Press
November 2015
On Sale: October 27, 2015
Featuring: Rune
ISBN: 1633920259
EAN: 9781633920255
Kindle: B013LJQZKA
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Fantasy | Young Adult

Some secrets cannot be keptβ€”in life or in death.

Months have passed since Rune has heard a single whisper from her long-dead mother, the great witch of Bavaria. But the absence of one evil has only made room for another. After rightfully inheriting her ancestral home, Pyrmont Castle, Rune settles into a quiet life taking care of two orphans left in the wake of the terrible witch hunt that claimed dozens of lives in the nearby village. As the days grow colder, the castle’s secrets beckon, and something darker seems to have been awakened, as well.

Rune finds herself roaming where no one has set foot in a long time. In the bowels of the fortress is a locked room full of memories that hang like cobwebsβ€”shelves stacked with jars, strange specimens, putrid liquids, and scrolls of spells. Rune is undeniably drawn to what she finds there, and she begins to dabble in the possibilities of magic, hoping she will find a cure for the strangeness overwhelming the castle. And the key may lie in the dark forest she once called home and the boy she thought she knew.