Hedge Witch




Fifteen year-old Cait Weerd has no idea she's being sought by the undain : sorcerous creatures of necromancy that feed off the spirit of the living. She doesn't know the undain need her blood to survive. She doesn't even know she's a witch, descended from a long line of witches. Cait Weerd doesn't know a lot, really, but all that's about to change.

At Manchester Central Library she’s caught up in sudden, horrific violence. In the chaos she’s handed an old book that’s been hidden there and told to run, hide the book or destroy it. It contains all the secrets of the undains’ existence. They and their human servants want to find that as much as they want Cait.

What’s more, she learns that the fate of two worlds is at stake here. Just what she needs. Along with definitely-not-a-boyfriend Danny, she has to decide what the hell to do. Run, fight or just hope it all goes away.

It's only then she learns who she really is, along with the terrible truth of what the undain have been doing in our world all this time ...




What readers have said about Hedge Witch :


"It's very exciting - I'd like to take the rest of this to bed tonight!"

"A very believable world full of danger, adventure and magic."

"A different spin on the usual fantasy world and a good deal more literate than most."

"I'm positively spellbound. This is wonderful work, written with such beautiful, visual clarity. I feel like I'm in the middle of a giant, vivid movie. I can't imagine any reader putting this down."

"The wonderful prose makes me think of Phillip Pullman."

"I absolutely love it! All the way through it I could picture everything perfectly in my mind. You've created such a wonderfully descriptive place that sounds beautiful yet the horrors you describe still come across perfectly."




Hedge Witch is the first volume in the magical modern fantasy Anead trilogy. The adventures will continue in Fetch Light and reach their dramatic conclusion in the final volume, Lich King.

Hedge Witch is currently unpublished. It is currently in search of an agent and/or a publisher.