With the Grimsbane men cursed by the Watcher, the most powerful witch in the Midwest, 12-year-old Anna must save her twin brother, Billy, who has run away to find the Watcher himself, before they turn 13 at midnight and he suffers a grisly death. Simultaneous eBook.
"Twelve-year-old Anna Grimsbane journeys into monster-filled woods to save her brother, who has been cursed by a witch known as The Watcher"--
Netflixs Wednesday meets Jodi Lynn Andersons The Memory Thief in this creepy and high-stakes middle grade adventure about a girls quest to save her cursed brother that takes her through perilous, monster-filled woods.
The Grimsbane women have been hunting witches and monsters for generationsever since the Watcher, the most powerful witch in the Midwest, cursed the Grimsbane men to die untimely and unusual deaths. Part-time skater, full-time troublemaker Anna Grimsbane may be only twelve, but shes been learning about hunting her whole life and is tired of waiting to do the real thing. She and her twin brother Billy are about to turn thirteen, the age the curse takes hold, and Anna wants to be on the front lines fighting to break it.
Only hours before hell become an accident-prone walking disaster, Billy runs away to find the Watcher himself. The Grimsbane women are all out on patrol, leaving it up to Anna and her friends Suvi and Rosario to find Billy before his recklessness hastens his demise. But the woods are crawling with cryptids, most of whom hate humans, and all of whom hate the Grimsbanes, and the deeper Anna gets into the forest, the clearer it is that reading about witch hunting is no replacement for practical experience.
Anna feels in over her head, especially as she starts to suspect she knows much less about her family history than shed thought. As she races against the clock to find Billy before midnight, it becomes all too evident that he isnt the only Grimsbane at risk for a grisly death tonight.
