THE WITCH'S CURSE
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In 1692, Elara Crowe, a healer accused of witchcraft, was burned alive by the townspeople after being betrayed by her lover. With her dying breath, she cast a curse on the town - a curse that promised suffering through generations until "a Crowe's blood runs cold beneath the moon."
Centuries later, Iris Crowe, a young historian, moves to the same town after inheriting her grandmother's abandoned cottage. She doesn't believe in curses - until she starts dreaming of Elara, who looks exactly like her.
As Iris digs deeper, she finds that every fifty years, a tragedy strikes the town: floods, disappearances, or unexplained deaths. And the time for the next event is drawing near.
When Iris meets Lucian Hale, a mysterious man who seems to know more about the town's dark past than he should, she begins to realize that breaking the curse might mean facing the truth about who she really is - and what Elara's curse was truly meant to do.
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