The Ink Witch
By Christy Mannering
Fern Glade has survived on old protections, old routines, and old lies. Then the dark learned to speak in paperwork.
The Ink Witch is the final book in the Fern Glade Series, a horror-mystery finale where magic behaves like bureaucracy: validity, loopholes, hidden terms, coercion, timing. The cost is never abstract. It lands on skin, in memory, and in what a person is forced to call “choice.”
Kiera Allison is gone, pulled into the Shadow Realm with her father and held there like leverage. A hooded figure offers her a quill, a bowl of ink black enough to drink light, and a strip of paper waiting for a name. The Ledger does not accept blanks. Hollow Root does not need knives when it can offer a signature and let you build your own cage.
Back in Fern Glade, Harvey June finds something buried where it should not be, sealed like a promise and warm against the cold. The pages show pressure-marks, omissions, and tidy little gaps, like someone expected the truth to be hunted instead of handed over. As the town’s wards begin to fail, Harvey and the others race to decode what was hidden before Hollow Root finishes the sentence it started.
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Fern Glade has survived on old protections, old routines, and old lies. Then the dark learned to speak in paperwork.
The Ink Witch is the final book in the Fern Glade Series, a horror-mystery finale where magic behaves like bureaucracy: validity, loopholes, hidden terms, coercion, timing. The cost is never abstract. It lands on skin, in memory, and in what a person is forced to call “choice.”
Kiera Allison is gone, pulled into the Shadow Realm with her father and held there like leverage. A hooded figure offers her a quill, a bowl of ink black enough to drink light, and a strip of paper waiting for a name. The Ledger does not accept blanks. Hollow Root does not need knives when it can offer a signature and let you build your own cage.
Back in Fern Glade, Harvey June finds something buried where it should not be, sealed like a promise and warm against the cold. The pages show pressure-marks, omissions, and tidy little gaps, like someone expected the truth to be hunted instead of handed over. As the town’s wards begin to fail, Harvey and the others race to decode what was hidden before Hollow Root finishes the sentence it started.
Coming late February 2026. Not yet for sale. Sign up for updates so you do not miss the release.