Spring has arrived in Crabapple Bend.
And the town’s oldest magic is beginning to crack.
The harbor is quiet, the orchards are blooming, and the preservation committee’s most stubborn member has just been poisoned.
When Aldous Fenn collapses during a town meeting, Teddy Vane is pulled into an investigation that reveals a terrifying pattern. The deaths of Vernon Crabb, Dr. Petra Lindgren, and Aldous Fenn were never separate tragedies.
They were steps in a plan.
Someone is targeting the people tied to the ancient ward-stones that sustain Crabapple Bend’s 200-year-old Binding—the magical barrier that protects the town from wild, unpredictable forces.
And if the final stones fall…
So does the town.
As Teddy’s psychometric gift reveals deeper layers of sabotage hidden beneath the streets of Fossick Lane, she and harbor master Nolan Voss are forced to confront truths neither of them can ignore—about the Binding, about the town’s history, and about the growing connection between them.
