Cottage Guardian

By Jody Lynn Hines

Amazon Book Description for "Cottage Guardian"
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When mysterious footsteps circle her isolated Vermont cottage, JonElla "Jonni" Connolly thinks it's just another woodland creature. She's wrong.

Jonni fled the city's chaos to find peace in forty acres of dense forest, crafting healing tinctures and protective jewelry while embracing her Virgo nature for order and solitude. But when massive paw prints appear in the first snow-prints too large for any wolf that should exist in Vermont-her carefully controlled world tilts toward mysteries she never imagined.
The footsteps belong to Silas, an ancient hellhound guardian whose blue flames signal protection rather than threat. And Jonni needs protection more than she knows.

When a predatory stranger appears at her door on Halloween night, Silas intervenes with supernatural fury. But this attack is just the beginning. Jonni's cottage sits at the heart of something much darker-a network of corruption that reaches from local officials to federal agencies, all designed to protect those who prey on the innocent.

Working with Forest Ranger Wayne Morrison and drawing on her Appalachian heritage of haints and guardians, Jonni discovers her cottage serves as a supernatural checkpoint protecting Camp Wildwood and its vulnerable children. When human predators create a cannibalistic Wendigo through dark rituals, the entire community of Thornwick must unite in an epic battle between ancient protection and modern evil.

But defeating the Wendigo is only the beginning. The corruption runs deeper than anyone imagined, and some forms of justice require supernatural intervention.

From the author who brings you a unique blend of Appalachian folklore, Irish mysticism, and small-town resilience comes a supernatural thriller about the lengths we'll go to protect innocence-and what happens when human systems fail and older powers step in.

Perfect for fans of supernatural suspense, strong female protagonists, and stories where community bonds prove stronger than institutional corruption.

What readers are saying: "A masterful blend of folklore and modern thriller" "Jonni is the kind of heroine we need-practical, fierce, and uncompromising" "Silas is now my favorite supernatural guardian"
Book 1 in the Thornwick Chronicles Jonni and Silas return in "Thornwick Rising: The Shepherd's Gambit"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FDSPKNKN
• ISBN13: 9798287161828
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"