Through the Yew Hedge: A Tale of Identity Magic is the luminous debut novella by Islay Corwin (the fiction pen name of Mary Ellen Gambutti), where what begins as a fairy tale unfolds into a reckoning with truth and belonging.

Boundaries blur—like the best hybrids—in the Silverton Estate's Medieval Monastery Garden, a liminal space where growth requires both structure and wildness, and where roots bind past to present.

Stella, an adoptee, begins to sense her half-fae nature as her metaphysical abilities awaken, stirring longing and confusion about her place within her extended family. From her omniscient–transcendent perspective, she explores identity fracture, the ethics of adoption, the right to one's true story, and the tension between what we observe to be true and the myths we choose to believe.

In this enchanted tale, ancient cedars serve as anchors, black roses mark thresholds, and morning glories bloom between worlds. The narrative shifts—like the Cedar Dryad herself—between clarity and lyricism, between forest wilds and manicured medieval garden, weaving botanical wisdom, fae magic, folklore, and the ache of adoption, identity, and the longing to belong.

Through the Yew Hedge is a coming-of-age story for anyone who understands what it means to live between worlds—caught between love and loss, concealment and radical truth, Stella must claim her entire inheritance.

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