Bodhi Bagsly: The Curse of Pumpkin Stone

Pumpkin Stone is a village unlike any other. Its streets wind beneath a harvest moon that never feels quite right, its lanterns glow with uneasy fire, and its people live under a shadow they dare not name. When the curse falls, neighbors vanish into the vines, their laughter twisting into silence, their faces never the same when they return. Fourteen-year-old Bodhi Bagsly has always lived in the shadow of that curse. When a carving of his-a wooden wolf-stirs with a strange, living fire, Bodhi finds himself pulled into a story far older and darker than he imagined. With Tibby, whose clockwork hare ticks with uncanny life, Fergus, who can coax the roots themselves to obey, and Nyssa, a witch with secrets tangled deep in the marsh, Bodhi must follow the signs before the curse swallows everything. But something else walks the fields. A living shadow, patient and watchful, whispering of debts long owed. Pumpkin Stone remembers. And it will not let its children go easily.