Description

The Near Witch is just a classic tale told to scare children.  If the breeze calls during the night, you have to not hear. The breeze is lonesome, and usually searching for company.  And there are no visitors in the city of Near.These are the facts that Lexi has noticed all her life.  But when a real stranger—a boy who appears to diminish like smoke—appears outside her house to the moor at night, she understands that at least one of these simple words is no longer true.The next night, the kids of Near start vanishing from their bedrooms, and the mystical boy falls under suspicion. Nevertheless, he insists on assisting Lexi look for them. Something tells her she could trust him.As the search for the kids intensifies, so does Lexi’s need certainly to know—about the witch that might just be much more than the usual bedtime story, about the wind that appears to talk through the walls during the night, and about the real history of the anonymous boy.Part fairy-tale, part love story, Victoria Schwab’s debut book is completely unique however achingly common: a tune you noticed sometime ago, a sound transported by the wind, and a desire you won’t quickly forget.