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Written in Stone and Ash
Paperback
Publisher Price: $15.99
Publisher: Cedar & Salt Publishing
Published: Jun 5 2026
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Some wounds don't heal with time. Some truths refuse to stay buried.
When history teacher Elise Alden begins experiencing vivid, disorienting visions of another woman's life, she dismisses them as grief playing tricks on a mind already fractured by loss. But the visions won't stop - and the woman inside them, Patience White, lived and died in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692.
As Elise's past and present begin to blur, she finds herself pulled deeper into Patience's world: a world of accusation, fear, and a justice system that condemned the innocent without mercy. What begins as a haunting slowly becomes something more - a reckoning. Because Patience's story was never truly finished, and Elise may be the only one who can finish it.
Written in Stone and Ash is a layered, atmospheric novel that moves between the present day and the shadow of the Salem witch trials, weaving together themes of grief, healing, intergenerational trauma, and the quiet, stubborn power of memory. It asks what we owe to the dead - and what it costs us when we look away.
For Elise, the journey to understand Patience is also the journey back to herself. As the boundaries between lifetimes grow thinner, she begins to understand that some souls are bound not by choice, but by unfinished things - by wrongs that echo forward through generations, demanding to be witnessed.
Part historical fiction, part paranormal women's fiction, Written in Stone and Ash is a story about the women history tried to erase, the grief we carry in our bodies without knowing why, and the extraordinary courage it takes to finally say: I remember you. I see you. You were not forgotten.
Rich with historical detail and emotional depth, this novel will resonate with readers who believe that the past is never truly past - and that love, in all its forms, is the most powerful force for healing across time.
For anyone who has ever felt the weight of a grief that wasn't entirely their own.
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