Minna and Kaija live deep in the birchwoods of northern Norway, hiding in the shadows since their mother was burned at the stake 13 years ago. Sweet-tempered Kaijia remembers life before the fire—the friendships, the comfort and warmth of community. Her magic is quiet, mostly charms to heal cuts and bruises. She’d happily give it up to have a normal life. Minna, though, is a witch through and through: full of power and unafraid of it, wrath always simmering just below the surface. When Kaija decides to return to the village where their mother died to make a new life for herself, Minna, in a rage, releases a curse to raze the community that’s taken everything from her. You can’t take back dark magic once it’s been released, and someone will have to burn. They are witches, after all.