Burning the Raven Tree (Threads of the Lost Myth)

“Burning the Raven Tree is a vivid, clever blend of folklore, myth, generational trauma, and the complicated bonds of family. Janyre Tromp pens pure poetry wrapped in small-town gothic drama, and it's a delight!”
.—Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Briar Club

A survivor accused of a decade-old grisly murder.
A disgraced lawyer with everything to prove.
And the only witness has stood watch for more than a millennium.
Northern Michigan is a land of ghosts and sweeping vistas. In the small town of Allentown, an ancient oak stands heavy with grief, its twisted limbs cradling shoes like silent gravestones.

The town whispers about Colwyn Cueny—the raven witch, the child killer, the woman who sees specters in the woods and locks her own sister away. But when disgraced Chicago attorney Marcus Lenarsic arrives to board with her, he doesn’t find a monster. Instead he finds a broken woman, bound by secrets and buried beneath decades of fear.

Marcus knows justice doesn’t live in shadows, and the stories people tell often hide the truths they can’t bear to face. In a nation shifting under the weight of reform, where the promises of mental health and legal justice are beginning to crack, Marcus must untangle truth from legend before the woman he’s come to protect becomes the next ghost in the trees.

A closed-door 1960s gothic historical thriller in the tradition of Rebecca. Perfect for readers who love Kate Morton, Simone St. James, and William Kent Kreuger.

“Packed with riveting moments of discovery and intersections of belief and choice, Burning the Raven Tree is thoroughly engrossing, darkly atmospheric, and hard to put down or predict.” —D. Donovan, Senior Book Reviewer, Midwest Book Review