The Burning Girls

Reverend Jack Brooks, a single mother with a fourteen-year-old daughter and a painful past, takes up a new post in the Sussex village of Chapel Croft, hoping for a fresh start. Instead she finds a community steeped in old horrors: five hundred years ago, Protestant martyrs were betrayed and burned here; thirty years ago, two teenage girls vanished without a trace; and her predecessor apparently took his own life. Her welcome gift is an exorcism kit and a chilling note.

As Jack's daughter Flo begins to glimpse the 'burning girls'—spectral figures wreathed in flame—Jack is drawn into the village's tangled secrets, its powerful families, and the truth about the missing girls. Meanwhile, a killer with a personal connection to Jack is making his way toward Chapel Croft. C.J. Tudor's The Burning Girls braids gothic ghost story, village mystery, and thriller into a tense, twist-laden tale about guilt, faith, and the past that refuses to stay buried.