The Night of Names

On the twenty-fourth of October, at ten past midnight, a wine-red card appears on the counter of the pharmacy where Mira Kessler works the late shift. It has her name on it. It has no stamp, no address, no sender. By morning, a bus that is on no timetable is waiting at her stop. Ashgrove is a town of ten thousand lanterns, and it opens for nine days every October to the people it has chosen. Every guest is offered a gift, and every gift has a price: a sorrow you would rather not carry, a memory, a quarrel, a voice. Mira's mother came here once, twenty-eight years ago, and spent the rest of her life running from it. Now her mother is dead. Mira has a letter, a map nobody should have, and two nights before the Oak asks its question. She has been warned not to answer it. A slow-burn gothic fantasy for Halloween, with a haunted town, a hungry tree, and a great many people who are only trying to be kind. Book One of the Wide Root Cycle. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Night of Names — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠