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The forest eats the girls who wander out after dark. As the healer''s daughter, Malka has seen how the wood''s curse has plagued her village. But the Ozmini Church only comes to collect its tithe, not to listen to heretics with false stories of monsters in the trees. So when a clergy girl wanders too close to the forest and Malka''s mother is accused of her murder, Malka strikes an impossible bargain with a zealot Ozmini priest: bring the monster out and spare her mother from execution. When she ventures into the shadowed woods, Malka finds a monster, but not the one she expects: an inscrutable, disgraced golem who agrees to implicate herself, but only if Malka helps her fulfill an ancient promise first and free the imprisoned rabbi who created her. But a deal easily made is not easily kept. And as their bargain begins to unravel a much more sinister threat, protecting her people may force Malka to endanger the one person she left home to save - and face her growing feelings for the very creature she was taught to fear.
About the author
Maddie Martinez was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where her love of stories began with desert plumes and watermelon sunsets. She holds a BA in Political Science and International Affairs from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts and an MA in Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University in Washington, DC. The Maiden and Her Monster is her first novel.
Summary
&b>&i>Uprooted &/i>&/b>&b>meets &i>The Wolf and the Woodsman &/i>in &i>The Maiden and Her Monster &/i>by Maddie Martinez, a gorgeously dark, evocative and achingly romantic sapphic tale of Jewish folklore.&/b>
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Beautifully written and bursting with detail, The Maiden and Her Monster is a dark, atmospheric and riveting debut, wreathed around a love story like no other Samantha Shannon, author of the million-copy bestseller The Priory of the Orange Tree
