Herla realizes that to befriend Cryda is to risk the girl's soul, and yet she finds herself drawn to the young scholar. But when Cryda loses her way on the moor, it's Herla who assists her. Orphaned and raised in a monastery on the edge of Dumnonia, eighteen-year-old Cryda spends what she believes to be her last days in study – until the night Ine of Wessex slays the king and lays waste to her home.ĭesperate to escape, she flees west. Cursed to bring death to all she meets, Herla now presides over her grim court, dreaming of vengeance.ħ10 AD. But a century passed for each day she feasted, and when she and her followers emerged, it was to find the Iceni wiped out and Britain overrun. Once an Iceni warchief, Herla was tricked into spending three days in the faery realm.
'Lucy Holland is a brilliantly assured storyteller' – Molly FlattĪ must-read for fans of Circe and The Bear and the Nightingale
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