After Clara is killed by her abusive husband, her two young children are abandoned beside her body in a forgotten cemetery. There they meet Mara, an ancient witch trapped within the graveyard—and Clara’s long-lost childhood friend.
Unable to leave the cemetery in her true form, Mara takes over Clara’s body to bring the children home. What begins as a promise to protect them soon becomes something far greater. Mara punishes Clara’s killer, gives abused women a safe place to escape, and inspires an entire village to stop looking away.
But when witch hunter Gideon arrives with weapons capable of tearing Mara from Clara’s body, the women she once saved must decide whether to hide again or fight for her.
In the end, Mara finally returns Clara’s body to the grave and steps into the world with her own face. She loses the woman she once loved—but gains two children who choose her as their mother, and a family that is truly her own.
