The Witch of the Needle. The Sisterhood

Self-publishing: when the author does it all

This book was not only written: it was imagined, edited, structured, formatted, and designed in every detail by me. From the first idea to the final cover, each step required hours of learning, trial, and quiet dedication.

Creating a book is much more than writing; it is about shaping, revising, and caring for every element so it reaches your hands in the best possible way.

In self-publishing, the author not only takes on the entire process but often receives only a few cents per copy.

If you choose to rate it, I invite you to do so with this perspective in mind, recognizing the full effort that lives within every page.

The Witch of the Needle. The Sisterhood

Can a single woman confront a legacy of pain woven through centuries? Or will she too become part of the final dark embroidery?

After a traumatic surgery, Susana awakens in a hospital where nothing seems in place. An elderly roommate vanishes without a trace, a piece of her bloodstained gown appears in Susana's wardrobe, and a skein of hair entwined with black needles begins to show her disturbing visions.
As she investigates, Susana uncovers a hidden truth: a secret sisterhood of elderly spinners whose needles do not stitch clothes... but souls. Women who, every 33 years, mark a town with an ancestral punishment, weaving the memory, the identity, and the very lives of their victims.
While in the present children disappear, old people die without explanation, and a forgotten lake claims new victims, Susana becomes the last thread of a cursed weaving that binds the past to horror.
In a hospital in a small German town, Susana awakens after surgery, unaware that her recovery will mark the beginning of a descent into the inexplicable. Among empty rooms and voices no one else can hear, she encounters Maya, an old woman bearing a wound and a secret that transcends generations. Soon she discovers the black needles: instruments forged from pain and memory, capable of stitching not only bodies, but also souls.
Every 33 years, the town of Dettelbach relives a cycle of disappearances and silence. They call it "the weaving." Forgotten women, abandoned girls, invisible old women-all belong to a Sisterhood that never died, waiting patiently in hospitals, nursing homes, and convents, weaving with human hair and blood.
As Susana digs into hidden archives and dreams that are not her own, she confronts a disturbing truth: she herself is part of the pattern. Between reinforcing the web or breaking it, she must decide whether to become the final stitch... or the one who tears it apart forever.
The Witch of the Needle. The Sisterhood is a haunting novel where horror intertwines with the historical memory of silenced women. An atmospheric, dark, and unsettling tale that reminds us that the true punishment is not death... but oblivion.

About the author
Luz Esneda Restrepo writes as if awakening from a dream, still holding on to what is essential. Her literary voice is intimate, intuitive, and powerful; she does not seek to explain everything, but suggests it with the delicacy of someone who has lived among symbols, echoes, and memories.
Her work flows between magical realism, science fiction, the supernatural, and emotional horror-exploring the borders between what we see and what we remember, between what we fear and what we may still heal, always with a profoundly human gaze.

In I, the Angel of Death, the author delves into emotional horror and dark fantasy. A tale of an angel who guides the dead- a story about a soul guide who, while helping others to cross, faces her own past, guilt, and the possibility of an impossible redemption.