Winterkeeper of Willowfen

When a woman upstream begins calling her dead daughter back through the river, the current starts carrying grief it was never meant to hold. Mara Thorne, herbalist and keeper of Willowfen's river bend, must walk three days upstream in winter to find Sable, and convince her to let go of the only comfort she has left.But the river has already learned to answer. And what it gives back is not quite what was lost.A story about grief that won't release, the cost of asking too much from something that loves to give, and the difference between holding on and holding together.