The Touch Test
(2026)(The second book in the Chronicles of the Whispering Falls Keepers series)
A novel by Hazel Whitmore
Andover, Massachusetts, 1692.
Mercy Lovejoy has learned how quickly fear can become evidence. Now a frightened thirteen-year-old girl seems to fall rigid without warning, only to recover when her aunt Damaris touches her.
To neighbors already searching for signs of witchcraft, the pattern looks like proof.
To Mercy, it looks like a child trapped inside someone else’s story.
As Andover’s real touch-test panic draws closer, Mercy must discover why Temperance Bramwell''s frightening episodes keep pointing toward Damaris without subjecting the girl to another cruel experiment. With Josiah beside her and Rufus, Sable, and Thimble noticing what human eyes miss, Mercy follows ordinary clues through household tensions, whispered beliefs, and fear sharpened into accusation.
Someone has taught the town what to see.
Mercy intends to find out why.
But in 1692, exposing manipulation may be easier than stopping people from believing it.
The Touch Test is Book Two of the Mercy Lovejoy series, a warm historical cozy fantasy filled with mystery, quiet magic, talking cats, friendship, family, and the dangerous consequences of fear in colonial New England.
Genre: Fantasy
Mercy Lovejoy has learned how quickly fear can become evidence. Now a frightened thirteen-year-old girl seems to fall rigid without warning, only to recover when her aunt Damaris touches her.
To neighbors already searching for signs of witchcraft, the pattern looks like proof.
To Mercy, it looks like a child trapped inside someone else’s story.
As Andover’s real touch-test panic draws closer, Mercy must discover why Temperance Bramwell''s frightening episodes keep pointing toward Damaris without subjecting the girl to another cruel experiment. With Josiah beside her and Rufus, Sable, and Thimble noticing what human eyes miss, Mercy follows ordinary clues through household tensions, whispered beliefs, and fear sharpened into accusation.
Someone has taught the town what to see.
Mercy intends to find out why.
But in 1692, exposing manipulation may be easier than stopping people from believing it.
The Touch Test is Book Two of the Mercy Lovejoy series, a warm historical cozy fantasy filled with mystery, quiet magic, talking cats, friendship, family, and the dangerous consequences of fear in colonial New England.
Genre: Fantasy