Summoning powers she barely understands, Lydia must engage the forces around her to keep her family safe, while protecting the blossoming love she has with John-who has secrets of his own. When whatever lurks in the house and its surrounding woods does the unthinkable, Lydia knows she is the only one who can stop it. Montrose has brought his family with him to Willow Hall. Montrose’s handsome business partner, John Barrett, seems to begrudge that Mr. But her resentment turns to disquiet when it becomes apparent that Willow Hall hides dark secrets that no one in the Montrose family could have predicted, like the ominous messages Lydia keeps receiving: “You attract them. Lydia resents that she’s lost everything. Montrose built as a summer retreat for his family, is now the only home the Montroses can have. Ten years later, Lydia finds herself in a carriage bound for the rural New Oldbury, Massachusetts, her family fleeing Boston in the wake of a scandal connected to her older sister, Catherine, her own engagement to a promising young man abruptly broken. When she confronts him in the street, she draws a disbelieving crowd, and she cannot quite remember what she’s done.

Lydia Montrose is a young girl, enraged by the cruel boy who torments her. A New England transplant, she now lives in rural Virginia with her husband and their two children. She is the author of such novels as The Witch of Willow Hall, A Lullaby for Witches, and the forthcoming The Last Heir to Blackwood Library.

“It was the Bishop boy who started it all…”īoston, 1811: The Salem Witch Trials are over one hundred years in the past, and America is a changed place. Hester Fox is a full-time writer and mother, with a background in museum work and historical archaeology.

The Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox