An antique leather grimoire rests on a floral background, with a glowing gold ring on its cover and a Celtic triquetra symbol beneath it. Purple thistles and delicate wildflowers frame the book.

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The Enchanted Legacy of Elizabeth Marchand

Name: The Enchanted Legacy of Elizabeth Marchand
Author: Deborah Griffin Hawke

by Deborah Griffin Hawke

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When single mother Elizabeth Marchand inherits a rare, centuries-old grimoire and an ancient Celtic ring her stressful world fractures to reveal a staggering secret- she is the next in a sacred, sixteen-generation maternal bloodline of earth-based magic. Seeking sanctuary from her toxic past, she retreats with her intuitive young daughter to a historic New England town, to find herself drawn into a protective circle of local hedge witches and a lineage older than the town itself. Perfect for fans of Practical Magic and ancestral mythology, this spellbinding contemporary fantasy follows one woman’s journey to unlock her blossoming elemental powers and heal her family’s restless spirit.

Coming next in Lore of the Grandmothers: Blood Between the Worlds. It's still being written, so read the sample chapter and hear the day it's out.

What to expect

Mood: Suspenseful Thought-provoking
Setting and world: Small town Magic and myth Real world, real problems
Pace and shape: First in a series
Themes: Family and belonging Friendship Identity and self-discovery Secrets and lies

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Author: Deborah Griffin Hawke
Genre: Fantasy

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Deborah Griffin Hawke

I write speculative fiction about women, power, family, and what happens when the world people thought they understood begins to shift beneath them. Sometimes that shift involves inherited magic. Sometimes it involves a country discovering how quickly institutions can bend. My fantasy novels are about women who discover that the stories their grandmothers told them may not have been stories after all. They blend folklore, inherited magic, family secrets, and contemporary life—with women who have accumulated enough years and experience to know that discovering magic doesn't make the ordinary complications of life disappear. Generation Liberty, co-written with Simon Hawke, moves into near-future dystopian fiction, exploring power, obedience, resistance, and what happens when the institutions meant to protect liberty begin to bend. Before turning my attention to fiction, I spent much of my career in higher education, where I learned that people are considerably more complicated than any character a novelist could invent. That probably explains why I'm as interested in what extraordinary circumstances do to people and relationships as I am in the circumstances themselves. I write as Deborah Griffin Hawke. The Enchanted Legacy of Elizabeth Marchand begins my Lore of the Grandmothers series, followed by The Secrets of the Thistle & Shield. If you like folklore wandering into the present day, old family mysteries, complicated women and relationships—or speculative fiction that asks what people do when the familiar rules stop working—you'll probably feel at home in my books.

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