In 1692, Ruth Hale dies on the gallows in Salem—but not before binding a deadly promise into the world.

Three centuries later, Clara works in Salem's museum gift shop, correcting lies on tourist brochures and dodging questions about "real" witches. The iron nail in her apron is just a keepsake—until messages start appearing in steam on her windows, voices whisper through glass, and she discovers she can weave justice from salt and thread.

When a corrupt megachurch pastor declares war on her town, promising to "cleanse" Salem of its witches, Clara realizes she's inherited more than just Ruth's blood. She's inherited Ruth's debt.

The ledger must be balanced. The accounts must be settled.

Armed with an ancient loom that binds lies to truth and forces the guilty to speak their own crimes aloud, Clara unleashes powers that have waited three hundred years to strike. But every binding demands a price. Every thread she ties costs her something she can't get back. And the line between justice and vengeance dissolves like salt in water.

Some debts can only be paid in blood.

The powerful have always used faith as a weapon. Now faith will cut both ways.

A witch's reckoning is coming to Salem—and this time, no one burns alone.

A dark contemporary fantasy about inherited power, dangerous justice, and the terrible cost of speaking truth to those who profit from lies.