Name: The Village Healer’s Book of Cures
Rating: 4.75 (2 reviews)
ISBN: 9781662511752

Jennifer Sherman Roberts

The Village Healer’s Book of Cures

In seventeenth-century England, a female healer enflames the fury of a witchfinder in this propulsive novel about murder, revenge, and the dangerous power of knowledge. Mary Fawcett refines the healing recipes she's inherited from generations of Fawcett women before her--an uncanny and moral calling to empathize with the sick. When witchfinder Matthew Hopkins arrives in her small village, stoking the fires of hate, he sees not healing but the devil at work. Mary's benevolent skills have now cast her and her young brother under suspicion of witchery. Soon, the husband of one of Mary's patients is found murdered, his body carved with strange symbols. For Hopkins, it's further evidence of dark arts. When the whispering village turns against her, Mary dares to trust a stranger: an enigmatic alchemist, scarred body and soul, who knows the dead man's secrets. As Hopkins's fervor escalates, Mary must outsmart the devil himself to save her life and the lives of those she loves. Unfolding the true potential of her gifts could make Mary a more empowered adversary than a witchfinder ever feared.

The Village Healer's Book of Cures

I loved this book. It was well written, the protagonist was realistic and layered, and the romance was sweet (despite the ending of it being quite open, which I liked). 

Kiersten

Beautifully written, compelling plot, fleshed out and beautiful characters. What more could you ask for? An easy read that draws you back in again and again. 

The Village Healer’s Book of Cures

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