This murder mystery steeped in magic is the perfect summer read.
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“In the Hour of Crowsenthralls like a delicious dark spell.
Glendy Vanderah, bestselling author ofWhere the Forest Meets the Stars

In a small town in Appalachia, people paint their doorways blue to keep spirits away.Black ferns grow where death will follow.And Weatherly Opal Wilder is a Death Talker.

When called upon, she can talk the death out of the dying and save their livesonly once, never twice. But this truly unique gift comes at a price, rooting Weatherly to people who only want her around when they need her and resent her unfamiliar ways when they dont.

Weatherlys cousin Adaire also has a gift: shes a Scryer and can see the future reflected back in dark surfaces. Right before she is killed in an accident, Adaire saw something unnerving, and thats why Weatherly believes she was murderednever thinking for a moment that it was an accident. But when Weatherly, for the first time, is unable to talk the death out of the mayors son, the whole town suspects she is out for revenge, that shewouldntsave him.

With the help of clues Adaire left behind and her familys Granny Witch recipe box, Weatherly sets out to find the truth behind her cousins death, whatever it takes.

Imbued with magic, witchery, and suspense, Dana Elmendorfs In the Hour of Crowsis a thrilling tale of friendship, identity, and love.