Names in the Meetinghouse
(2026)(The first book in the Chronicles of the Whispering Falls Keepers series)
A novel by Hazel Whitmore
An ordinary household list should have been harmless. In Andover in 1692, two added names could destroy lives.
Mercy Lovejoy knows how quickly a whisper can become a certainty. So when a copied household-help list appears in the meetinghouse with two names that were never meant to be there, she understands the danger before most of her neighbors do.
Someone has altered the list. Someone has left it where it would be found. And now people are beginning to wonder whether the names belong to women suspected of witchcraft.
Mercy refuses to let rumor become evidence.
With Rufus, Sable, and Thimble at her side, and the unusual gifts she is still learning to carry responsibly, Mercy begins tracing the list through paper, handwriting, ink, household errands, and the people who handled it. What looks like a simple piece of paper leads through debts, reputations, private grievances, and the dangerous ease with which fear can be used against another person.
She must discover who changed the list and why before whispered suspicion becomes a formal accusation.
Set in Andover, Massachusetts, during the gathering crisis of 1692, Names in the Meetinghouse is a warm, atmospheric historical mystery filled with domestic life, quiet magic, talking cats, community secrets, and a woman determined to preserve the truth when the truth is most at risk.
Book One of the Mercy Lovejoy Keeper Series.
Genre: Fantasy
Mercy Lovejoy knows how quickly a whisper can become a certainty. So when a copied household-help list appears in the meetinghouse with two names that were never meant to be there, she understands the danger before most of her neighbors do.
Someone has altered the list. Someone has left it where it would be found. And now people are beginning to wonder whether the names belong to women suspected of witchcraft.
Mercy refuses to let rumor become evidence.
With Rufus, Sable, and Thimble at her side, and the unusual gifts she is still learning to carry responsibly, Mercy begins tracing the list through paper, handwriting, ink, household errands, and the people who handled it. What looks like a simple piece of paper leads through debts, reputations, private grievances, and the dangerous ease with which fear can be used against another person.
She must discover who changed the list and why before whispered suspicion becomes a formal accusation.
Set in Andover, Massachusetts, during the gathering crisis of 1692, Names in the Meetinghouse is a warm, atmospheric historical mystery filled with domestic life, quiet magic, talking cats, community secrets, and a woman determined to preserve the truth when the truth is most at risk.
Book One of the Mercy Lovejoy Keeper Series.
Genre: Fantasy
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