The Quiet Country · Book Two

A Winter Long

In the worksFour hundred years before

A grief carried, and a creature the Wend has begun to fear.

Ilka’s grief is carried now, held by the hound at her side, and a widowed trader from the Sorne country comes up the edge to learn how such a thing is done.

At the Wend, the blood-bridge rite arrives, and Senna becomes the one who must say whether a beast truly chose. Fear of the black one grows. So do the questions about the silent old woman who sits by the window every night.