they uncover point toward Eli's mother. Eli tries not to think about her mother too often. After all, the woman had abandoned Eli as a child, and in a psychiatric ward at that. But Eli needs answers, so she probes her family's history. Along the way she learns that she's more closely entwined with the local witch cans than she ever realized. Then Amir begins killing witches-some with a slow descent into madness, others publicly and messily-and Eli realizes she's out of options. She reaches out to her first enemy, someone who tried to control Eli's destiny before she was ever born: Sarah Allwood, the witch who started it all. But, what could Sarah have to do with Eli's mother? Eli hasn't seen her in twenty years... then Eli learns that the last time her mother visited her, she had a thornapple blossom in her hair. THORNAPPLE--Book 3 of the Poison Garden Read less