A hagtale, a dark fable, a story told around winter’s fires and known to Shakespeare but never written down. Until now. In the eleventh century, a feral child is taken in by three witches after the wolves who cared for her are slaughtered by hunters. Three hundred years later, gentle, observant Brother Rowan makes fair copies of historical fragments. In truth, he spends most of his time in the garden of his priory in the Scottish Lowlands. He hasn’t fully recovered from the Great Plague, which killed most of the other monks. But the Benedictine order wants to send him north in search...
A hagtale, a dark fable, a story told around winter’s fires and known to Shakespeare but never written down. Until now. In the eleventh century, ...
