The night splits. A second, iron moon claws its way into the sky. From ash and silence, the dead rise—bound by scarlet threads and a single will. The old gods are waking, and they remember what was promised to them.

Anya—witch, outcast, survivor—is the last Daughter of Yaga left standing. The forest still answers her... and so does the darkness inside it. To stop the ritual that will drown the world, she must gather broken allies, barter with spirits that hate the living, and step across the veil where memory and nightmare wear the same face.

But Yaga has chosen her "successor." If Anya claims that power, villages live and the gods sleep—but the crown will hollow her into something new. If she refuses, the forest burns.

From burning clearings and river-mirrors to a bone-bright underworld, Anya's path twists through rival witches, a chorus of the dead, and a duel where belief itself is a blade. At the end waits a decision that will either save a world... or remake it.

Mother of Witches is the epic, Slavic-folklore finale to the Daughters of Baba Yaga saga—equal parts lyrical and brutal, steeped in witch-magic, haunted forests, and the cost of power.

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For fans of Katherine Arden, Naomi Novik, and Leigh Bardugo.

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