In the forgotten forest beyond the drowned hills, the Circle awakens after nearly a century of silence. Beneath thirteen standing stones and a sky without stars, the Hollow Path opens once more-and a blind girl named Elin kneels at its heart.
She is fifteen. She has no spellbook, no candle, no charm. Only one truth: her mother did not die in childbirth, as the village claimed. Her mother was taken. Offered. Buried beneath sacred soil by witches the world tried to forget.
Now, Elin has called them back.
Trial of the Black Moon is a sweeping dark fantasy novel of ancestral memory, buried power, and the terrifying beauty of confession. Six ancient witches rise from their slumber-each bound by guilt, each twisted by the truths they never spoke. But Elin is not afraid. She walks the Hollow Path not to wield magic, but to unearth it. She seeks not vengeance, but memory. And what she finds will unravel more than history.
As the witches confess their sins-murder, betrayal, forbidden love, and truths warped by time-Elin learns she was never just a girl seeking her mother. She is the echo of a secret too dangerous to be left buried.
The Hollow Path demands confession. And Elin is its final witness.
With haunting prose and cinematic atmosphere, Viktoryia Konan crafts a world of whispered power and chilling transformation. A girl raised in silence must speak the truth of all that came before-because without memory, there is no future.
For fans of Leigh Bardugo, T. Kingfisher, and dark folktales where magic always costs more than it offers.
The witches are awake. The Path remembers. And the black moon does not forgive.