From award-winning author Michaela Riley comes a dark epic saga, where history and myth bleed together.

History taught us to fear witches.
This story reveals why we needed them.

 

In the twilight of the Western Roman Empire in 478 AD, as ancient Gaul fractures and the old gods are hunted into shadow, a buried prophecy begins to stir. It does not speak of emperors or saints, but of a witch. Reborn. Remembered. Revolted.

Born under a three-hour eclipse, Merona enters the world screaming in rage. Her soul is not new; it is a vessel returned, carrying the weight of forgotten lives. Hunted from birth by Armaeus, a hollow-eyed sorcerer who feeds on souls to stave off decay, Merona’s magic awakens in storms, visions and the memory of burning pyres.

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She should have died. Instead, she is found.

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Claimed by Murdach, an immortal dragon bound in human flesh, and watched over by the Morrigan, the Crow Goddess of fate and fury, Merona is no longer just a victim. She is a weapon of divine retribution. As the new faith outlaws the old and darkness spreads from shattered warlord fiefdoms to distant Constantinople, Merona’s journey deepens. She must descend into the Otherworld’s labyrinth to face who she once was, master the Cauldron of Dagda to halt a supernatural pestilence, and claim the Spear of Lugh as the world itself begins to die.

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The war does not begin with trumpets, but with a silent, fallen sun. Armaeus stands at the brink of triumph. But Merona is no longer the girl who fled. She is the storm. The flame. The last voice in the dark. To survive, she must accept the full, terrifying truth of her rebirth: she is not just a witch, but the living vessel of the divine feminine, the eternal return the world tried to erase.

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And her war is only beginning.

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Francia, 567 AD. A queen is murdered in her marriage bed, and a blood feud ignites between Brunhild and the ruthless Fredegund that will consume the Merovingian kingdoms for nearly fifty years. Merona and Murdach return through the veil on Samhain and step into a game where every alliance is a trap, every queen is a player and ancient powers move behind the throne. In The Gambit of Queens, Merona must decide how much of herself she will sacrifice to win a war history remembers as one of its bloodiest.

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A kingdom divided. A magic forbidden. A gambit unleashed.

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For fans of The Mists of Avalon and The Witcher, The Witch’s Rebirth is an eight-book saga and a visceral reimagining of a lost age, where gods fall, empires rot and one witch refuses to go quietly.

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Books I–IV available now: Labyrinth of Shadows · The Cauldron of Dagda · The Spear of Lugh · The Gambit of Queens