Breathings of the Moon

4.5 15 ratings on Goodreads

Releases March 4, 2025

In Zoe’s quest to discover her mother’s killer, she’ll find the most powerful memory she has is her own. And it’s all a lie.

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When the brightest of the Underhills disappeared, Brynn left behind two young children and plenty of questions.

When her body is found twenty years later, her daughter Zoe returns to her New England hometown to solve a mystery that has haunted her and her brother for two decades.

With a touch, Zoe Underhill knows your memories.

Zoe is a memory keeper, with a gift passed down through the generations. It’s allowed her to shift into other personalities, and form a new life far from her controlling family. 

But when her mother’s body is discovered twenty years after her disappearance, she must return to unravel her mother’s murder and learn the truth about the family legend which gifted them all with enigmatic powers.

As she pieces together what people recall about that fatal day when her mother left, she discovers one falsehood after another.

Storms brew as Zoe’s return to her New England hometown coincides with the 130th anniversary of the great Gale, the storm her ancestor claims to have tamed and which earned the family their strange powers.

There is a reckoning long overdue and only blood will redress it.

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Memories refuse to stay buried in this haunting novel about the loss of a mother, the constraints of family duty, and a history of lies that spans generations.

Breathings of the Moon explores the sweet and bitter aspects of memory, and how we use it to comfort and betray ourselves.

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Ideal for fans of Adrienne Young (Spells for Forgetting, The Unmaking of June Farrow); The Last of the Moon Girls (Barbara Davis); Kate Morton (The Secret Keeper, The Lake House); Cheril Thomas (Eastern Shores Mysteries); The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan; and Sage Parker’s The Smoky Mountain Retreat series.

This standalone is suitable for 18+, contains one murder scene, mild cursing, and a couple of Open Door scenes with willing adults.

What Readers are Saying

“I have read this author before so I thought I knew what to expect when I read this newest by her. Boy was I wrong in a very good way. This book is an enthralling tale of family, tragedy, magic, and truths that shouldn’t buried…and so much more.”
PenKay
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“This book really had it all; mystery, a dysfunctional family, loyalty, love, hate, trauma, hero, villain, growth, magic and I twist I never saw coming and I loved every second it took to read it!”
Cathryn
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“Omg it kept me guessing until the end. Lots of twists and turns. I have not read a Byrd Nash book that I haven't loved.”
Heather
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“It is such a great story! I am seriously impressed.”
Davida
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“While reading this book I just wanted to CONSUME it!! I was just so invested in this read, committed to the entertaining spell I LOVE IT!! Every book I have read from this author is a wild ride, a total page turner.”
Cindy S
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“The fam is one of those proper "we must always be united" front old families with the Chosen One streak because of their abilities. Each character is nuanced and multifaceted and I love it, they breathe so much life into the story.”
Tanja G
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