Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

ThereΓÇÖs power in a bookΓǪ They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And theyΓÇÖre sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine,Floridawhere unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secretto give them up for adoptionand most important of allto forget any of it ever happened. Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970pregnantterrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwoodshe meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. ThereΓÇÖs Rosea hippie who insists sheΓÇÖs going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinniaa budding musician who plans to marry her babyΓÇÖs father. And Hollya wisp of a girlbarely fourteenmute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who. Everything the girls eatevery moment of their waking dayand everything theyΓÇÖre allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know whatΓÇÖs best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraftand power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it createsand itΓÇÖs never given freely. ThereΓÇÖs always a price to be paid…and itΓÇÖs usually paid in blood. In Witchcraft for Wayward Girlsthe author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searingcompletely original novel and further cements his status as a ΓÇ£horror masterΓÇ¥ (NPR).