Our Gifted Hearts

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When she's accused of witchcraft, Fortune must flee her village to spare her neck, marrying a man she barely knows. But is the man who promises to be her saviour all he seems When she's accused of witchcraft, Fortune must flee her village to spare her neck, marrying a man she barely knows. But is the man who promises to be her saviour all he seems Fortune Blyth suffered the loss of a secret child when she was sixteen and vowed never to let another man touch her. Ten years later she is content with Ma and her beloved birds. But when witch hunters come to town it isn't long before fingers are pointed at the spinster and she is forced to choose; stay and hang, or marry a man who can offer her safety far from home. She chooses marriage. Her husband's island home is not the safe haven she expected, with a surly housekeeper and an eccentric mother-in-law to contend with. And there is something else; secrets hiding in the walls, demons creeping in her nightmares and something sinister in the concealed tunnels below the house. Perhaps she would have been better off hanging after all...

Reviews

The slow, quiet horror of Our Gifted Hearts is so tense youll need to hide this book in the freezer to catch your breath (and then get it straight out again to discover what happens next). Beautifully written and powerfully compelling.
Dan Hanks, author of Captain Moxley and the Embers of the Empire, Swashbucklers and The Way Up is Death

"Compulsively readable, romantic, and filled with fun and familiar tropes of the genre, Our Gifted Hearts is a classic gothic novel that nonetheless manages to offer something new due to its witchy touch."
Johanna Van Veen, author of Blood on Her Tongue

Author Bio

Jennifer Kennedy was born and raised in Liverpool, England. Her love of reading started young and by age ten was immersed in the contrasting worlds of the Brontes and Stephen King. She went on to study English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University. Drawn to the supernatural and mysterious it was inevitable that she would go on to write gothic fiction. She dreams of living in a haunted mansion on the moors, but until then is content in her tiny house with her son and their extremely black cat.