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The Poppy Widow

The Poppy Widow

J, Isa

Paperback

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN13: 9798165106026
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 25 2026
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She does not age. She does not keep what she loves.

Yorkshire, 1919. Captain Theodore Winter returns from the war to find Thornmere Hall unchanged-and his stepmother, Cecilia, more beautiful than the day he left.

She has not aged. Not in sixteen years. Cecilia Winter is a secret, kept by the house and the valley: a young widow who buries tenant farmers and raises heirs and does not grow old. The village has learned not to ask. Theo has loved her since he was nine years old, and for sixteen years he has kept that love locked behind silence and distance and four years of war.

Now he is home. And the silence is breaking. When a portrait from the attic and a journal reach the wrong hands, Thornmere's old quiet becomes a new reckoning. A mob gathers at the gate. A hay-fork finds its mark. And Cecilia must choose: let the man she raised die of the curse she carries, or pay the price that has always been waiting in the red field, under the moon, when the poppies are in bloom.

The Poppy Widow is a Gothic romance of curses and bargains, and the terrible currency of love-set in the long shadow of the Great War, in a house that keeps its dead and a valley that keeps its count.

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