Song of the Huntress - A captivating folkloric fantasy of treachery, loyalty and lost love

A must-read for fans of Circe and The Bear and the Nightingale Britain, 60AD. Hoping to save her lover, land and her people from the Romans, Herla makes a desperate pact with the king of the Otherworld. But years pass unheeded in his realm, and she escapes to find everyone she loved long dead. Cursed to wield his blade, she becomes Lord of the Hunt. And for centuries, she rides, reaping wanderers'' souls. Until the night she meets a woman on a bloody battlefield - a Saxon queen with ice-blue eyes. Queen AEthelburg of Wessex is a proven fighter. But when she leads her forces to disaster in battle, her husband''s court turns against her. Yet King Ine needs AEthel more than ever: the dead kings of Wessex are waking, and his own brother seeks to usurp him. Ine''s only hope is to master the magic that''s lain dormant in his bloodline since ancient days. When their paths cross, Herla knows it''s no coincidence. Something dark and dangerous is at work in the Wessex court. The Otherworld seeks to rise, to bring the people of Britain under its dominion. As she and AEthel grow closer, Herla must find her humanity - and a way to break the curse - before it''s too late. Song of the Huntress recasts the folklore behind the Wild Hunt into a dark, feminist fantasy set amidst the legends and beauty of ancient Cornwall. ''Lucy Holland is a brilliantly assured storyteller'' - Molly Flatt

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Holland, HOLLAND LUCY
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781529077407
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-7740-7
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 243 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Fairytales, sagas, legends; Cornwall, Historical fiction, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Fantasy / Action & Adventure, Epic fantasy / heroic fantasy, Myth & legend told as fiction, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, 8th century, c 700 to c 799, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales