Torvi and Morgunn must learn to survive on their own after a devastating plague sweeps through their steading. Upon hearing rumors of Uther?a flame-loving Fremish wolf-priest?and her band of desperate starving girls who move hungrily through Vorseland searching for recruits they decide to leave their home and hunt down a mythical sword lost in the depths of the Green Wild Forest. If found and pulled from the stone tree the sword could catapult the first woman to a throne in generations.
But when Uther captures Morgunn Torvi must embark on a quest to save her sister instead taking with her a shaven-skulled druid and a band of roaming Elsh artists called the Butcher Bards. Along the way Torvi faces brutal bone-grinding Salvation monks barters with a handsome young wizard attends a magical Night Market and seeks a prophecy from an eerie Pig Witch. The blood bond between sisters runs deep and Torvi will save Morgunn?or die trying.
In this stand-alone companion to the critically acclaimed fantasy The Boneless Mercies readers will thrill at Tucholke?s signature sumptuous writing a complex sisterhood and a heartbroken heroine who discovers that her story is grander and wilder than she ever imagined.
