Before there was Christmas, there was Yule—the Winter Solstice. For modern-day witch Mena McGinty, it may still be the season of rebirth, or at least second chances. Mena flees a dark past, leaving behind everything she knows for the cold north, only to find that as the longest night of the year approaches, a new life may be her gift of the season. The Darkest Night is a ten-thousand word novelette, approximately forty pages. It is the prequel to the Hedgewitch Mysteries, and was originally featured in the Eclective's Holiday Collection.