Weyward

“I am a Weyward, and wild inside.”

2019: Fleeing an abusive partner, Kate escapes London for Weyward Cottage, a crumbling inheritance from a great-aunt she barely knew. Among the ivy and tangled gardens, Kate begins to uncover whispers of a secret legacy—one buried since the witch-hunts of the 1600s.

1619: Altha awaits trial for witchcraft after a farmer’s sudden death. Taught by her mother to draw strength from the natural world, she knows her knowledge of herbs and animals is her only defense in a time when women like her are feared—and condemned.

1942: Violet, confined to her family’s decaying estate during the war, longs for freedom and the education denied to her. The only clues to her late mother’s life are a locket engraved with a W and the word weyward carved into her bedroom floorboards.

Spanning centuries, Weyward braids together the stories of three women bound by hidden power and defiance. Emilia Hart delivers a spellbinding novel of resilience, inheritance, and the wild strength that survives in the margins of history.