The Witching Tide
by Margaret Meyer
Buy on Amazon"East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived peacefully for more than four decades in her beloved seaside village of Cleftwater. Having lost her voice as a child, Martha has not spoken a word in years. One autumn morning, a sinister newcomer appears in town. The witchfinder, Silas Makepeace, has been blazing a trail of destruction along the coast, and now has Cleftwater in his sights. His arrival strikes fear into the heart of the community. Within a day, local women are being captured and detained, and Martha finds herself a silent witness to the hunt. Powerless to protest, Martha is enlisted to search the accused women for 'devil's marks'"--Provided by publisher.
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"Martha Hallybread is a woman of faith – somewhat. When a strange man rolls into her small fishing town and establishes himself as a witch hunter, that faith is tested. And so are Martha’s loyalty and sanity. Margaret Meyer’s debut novel, The Witching Tide, takes us into the middle of the terrifying witch trials in East Anglia in the 17th century. Martha is a healer and midwife who can’t speak. The town is paranoid, and as almost every woman in her once close-knit town is being accused of witchcraft, her inability to speak may save her from the noose as she cannot formally confess to the accusations of being a witch. But her saving grace becomes the final nail for her friends and neighbors when Martha is unable to use her voice to save them."
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