The Meadow Bleeds is a sweeping, time-bending gothic fantasy about generational trauma, love, and the dangerous allure of comfort. Spanning centuries, from prehistoric times to famine-struck 19th-century Ireland to 1980s Michigan and modern-day Monnagh, its threads are bound by an immortal Sidhe, Lichen, who watches over one bloodline, sometimes as guardian, sometimes as temptation. When Fia inherits her vanished mother’s Irish cottage, she discovers journals, photographs, and whispers of the Meadow, a timeless golden realm where grief and desire intertwine. Through multiple voices (Fia, her lost mother Meave, her grandmother Nora, and ancestors like Rowan and Aisling) the novel explores what is risked and what is preserved when you choose stasis over struggle, or freedom over devotion. Lyrical and haunting, it’s a story about motherhood, memory, and the iron threads that pull us toward both ruin and redemption.

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Comparable Stories:

Outlander, The Sandman comics, Tuck Everlasting

Trigger Warnings:

Sexual Assault, Alcoholic Father