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Now available in a gorgeous Deluxe Collector s Edition featuring beautiful new cover art special hardcover case design illustrated endpapers and stenciled edges--the stunning debut novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning. This story of fantasy romance and folklore inspired by Hungarian history and Jewish mythology follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen as they form an unlikely alliance to thwart a tyrant. In her forest-veiled pagan village Évike is the only woman without power making her an outcast clearly abandoned by the gods. The villagers blame her corrupted bloodline--her father was a Yehuli man one of the much-loathed servants of the fanatical king. When soldiers arrive from the Holy Order of Woodsmen to claim a pagan girl for the king s blood sacrifice Évike is betrayed by her fellow villagers and surrendered. But when monsters attack the Woodsmen and their captive en route slaughtering everyone bu