Ashwalker : She walked out of the fire. The town never forgave her.

Some girls survive the fire. Others become it.



When the last funeral ends and the ash settles across the moorlands, one girl walks barefoot into the ruin of her mother’s world and doesn’t look back. Raised in silence. Forged in shame. She is the daughter of a vanished name — and the heir to a curse she never asked to carry.



In the shadow of a crumbling estate house in the north of Ireland, Wren Callow returns to reclaim the life they said she couldn’t have. But Devlin Hollow keeps its secrets buried in peat and blood. The townspeople whisper. The house creaks. The children of the fire do not sleep.



When a strange letter from the past arrives — one claiming her mother was murdered, not mad — Wren is forced to dig deeper into the roots of her own story. Alongside a childhood friend who sees more than he should, and an archivist whose presence both steadies and undoes her, Wren must choose: uncover the truth, or protect what’s left of her sanity. The ghosts of Devlin Hollow are watching. And some of them wear her face.



A dark, lyrical novel of generational trauma, folklore, and the daughters we forget to name, Ashwalkers is a searing new work from award-nominated author Laura Carpenter. Blending haunting prose with stark gothic realism, this novel is a reckoning — and a rebirth.



For readers of Rebecca, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Death of Mrs. Westaway, and The Silent Companions, this story offers a stunning blend of Irish myth, modern grief, twisted romance, and the weight of inherited silence.



From the author of The Ties That Made Us — finalist in six international competitions, praised by