Burn the Witch - by Sheila Hamilton (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

For fans of Gillian Flynn and Jodi Picoult, a novel about female fight and flight, and reclaiming our lives through female friendship.

Accused of killing her unborn child, abandoned by everyone who should protect her, Samantha Winston vanishes into the American West--and discovers an underground of women who know exactly how to fight back.

Samantha has the life she's designed: a fashion career, a wealthy husband, a pregnancy she wanted. Then she loses her baby on a New York runway--a miscarriage which, under new reproductive health laws, is considered a crime. The state charges her with murder. Her husband's family erases her. The internet wants her dead.

So she disappears. Reinventing herself as Annie Ford, she flees to Wind River, Washington--a cash-only town with no digital footprint and no questions asked. But Wind River is more than a hiding place. Its women run an underground network defending those criminalized for pregnancy. And they've been waiting for someone like her.

For readers of The Handmaid's Tale and Gone Girl, Burn the Witch is a propulsive feminist thriller about reproductive freedom, female solidarity, and what it takes to reclaim your name when the world wants you silenced.

Review Quotes

"Set in a future that feels both familiar and terrifying, Burn the Witch asks how far we will go to save ourselves--and our country. This is a beautiful, earthy book that delivers suspense and a banger of an ending."--Rene Denfeld, author of The Child Finder

About the Author

Sheila Hamilton is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and former Portland news personality, once voted the city's #1 morning news anchor. In addition to Burn the Witch, she is the author of All the Things We Never Knew and Palm Springs (Assouline).

Her writing has appeared in Psychology Today, The Huffington Post, WEBMD NEWS and BP Magazine, and she is the founder of mental health platform Beyond Well Media. She hosts the podcast Beyond Well, and her health and wellness content reaches more than 1.2 million people through a partnership with WebMD. Sheila lives in Palm Springs, California.