Clifftides

Witches, vampires, mermaids-stories people tell to explain what they can't understand. In Clifftides, every unexplained storm, every shattered window, every strange, impossible moment had always led back to one name: Tessa Rivers. They never proved anything-but they didn't need to. "Witch" followed her anyway.

By eight, she had learned what that meant. People didn't look at her the same. They avoided her, whispered about her, turned their backs before she could even speak. After her grandmother's death, only Marley and Ben stayed-the only ones who never treated her like something to fear, even when she started to believe it herself. Then, without warning, her mother took her away, leaving Clifftides behind, swearing they'd never return.

But at seventeen, Tessa is back.

And this time, something is different.

There's a stranger across the street-quiet, unreadable, and hiding more than he lets on.