"A Shadow's Curse: Chapters 1-3 • Newsletter"

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Garin James has spent years trying to hold together what’s left of his family. His father and brother vanished into the cursed woods, and though he refuses to say it aloud, a part of him knows the wraiths took them. Now it’s just Garin, his mother, and a shrinking piece of land she keeps selling off to survive. Every night, Garin lights the perimeter fires to keep the wraiths from crossing into their fields. Every day, he shoulders the weight of a farm too big for one young man and a future too small for his restless heart. He dreams of traveling—of seeing the world beyond their valley—but his mother needs him, and duty always wins. A trip to the mining town brings whispers of curfews, rising attacks, and Captain Lucien’s ruthless hunt for witches. Garin tries to ignore the fear tightening around the valley… until one impulsive choice changes everything. While he’s gone—buying boots he didn’t need with money he shouldn’t have taken—his mother is arrested for witchcraft. Her garden is burned. Their cedar trees are destroyed. And Garin returns to smoke, ruin, and the crushing guilt that he wasn’t there when she needed him most. The wraiths are stirring. The curse is spreading. And saving his mother may mean facing the darkness that stole the rest of his family. Begin the journey with the first three chapters.