Blood and Salt (A Blood and Salt Novel)

The last words Ash hears her mother say are When you fall in love you will carve out your heart and throw it into the deepest ocean. You will be all inblood and salt. Determined to find her mother when she disappears Ash follows her to Quivara Kansas the spiritual commune she escaped long ago. But something sinister and ancient waits among the rustling cornstalks of this village lost to time. Her mother is nowhere to be found but Ash is plagued by memories of her ancestor Katia which harken back to the towns history of unrequited love murder alchemy and immortality. Charming traditions give way to a string of deaths. And Ash feels herself drawn to Dane a mysterious forbidden boy with secrets of his own. As the community prepares for a ceremony five hundred years in the making Ash fights to save her mother her lover and herself. She must discover the truth about Quivara before its too late. Before shes all inblood and salt.