If you’re worried about having enough time to read Sightwitch before Susan Dennard comes next week, don’t fret — the book is on our shelves now! You can pick it up today and bring it in for the event on Tuesday, February 20 at 7 p.m. Don’t forget to check out our interview with Susan!

Here are the details on the book:

Before Safi and Iseult battled a Bloodwitch … Before Merik returned from the dead … Ryber Fortiza was a Sightwitch Sister at a secluded convent, waiting to be called by her goddess into the depths of the mountain. There she would receive the gift of foretelling. But when that call never comes, Ryber finds herself the only Sister without the Sight. Years pass and Ryber’s misfit pain becomes a dull ache, until one day, Sisters who already possess the Sight are summoned into the mountain, never to return. Soon enough, Ryber is the only Sister left. Now, it is up to her to save her Sisters, though she does not have the Sight — and though she does not know what might await her inside the mountain. On her journey underground, she encounters a young captain named Kullen Ikray, who has no memory of who he is or how he got there. Together, the two journey ever deeper in search of answers. Their road is filled with horrors, and what they find at the end of that road will alter the fate of the Witchlands forever.

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