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📖 Paperback Edition — Every thirty years, the town keeps one woman. This year it chose me.

Anya Serrano doesn’t scare. She’s an investigative reporter with a recorder that never stops running, and the last editor who told her to drop a story became the subject of one.

Then her friend Leah, an archivist in a tiny Vermont town, goes missing, and a scheduled email arrives with three names, two photographs, and one line: If I’ve stopped answering, go. Don’t let them be kind to you.

Thornwick is the kindest town Anya has ever seen. Everybody smiles. Everybody gives her bread. Everybody says Leah left. And every woman in town has an iron lantern with her name on it, waiting for the Vigil on the last night of October. Every one but the empty hook by the church door.

Rhea Thorne keeps Thornwick. She’s tall and cold and wears thirteen river-stone rings, and when Anya asks her age on the record, she says three hundred and ninety. Nobody laughs.

She also asks before she touches. Every time. Out loud.

Something under the church has learned Anya’s name. A black tree is growing over her heart. The town has started calling her the Last Human, and Rhea knows exactly what that means, because she’s the one who writes the tags.

Anya came to find one missing woman. She’s found seven. And she’s falling for the witch who signed for every one of them.

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ High Heat • FF Sapphic Paranormal Witch Romance by Maeve Hollow

Tropes: Witch × Reporter • Immortal × Mortal • Age Gap (390 Years) • Ice Queen • Small-Town Secrets • Gothic • Forced Proximity • She Always Asks First • Power Exchange • Touch Starved • Found Family • Standalone

Paperback details: 6 × 9 in • cream paper • matte cover. Includes a link to the exclusive bonus chapter, “For the Record.”

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic FF scenes, including a strap-on, magical restraints, edging and orgasm control), consensual power exchange, a town ritual that selects women to be sacrificed, women held captive and kept alive underground, magical coercion and attempts to compel consent, the erasure of a character’s memories, the abduction of a side character, the death of a secondary character, references to past domestic violence, nosebleeds and physical collapse, rapid magical aging, and strong language. Intended for readers 18+.

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