About the Book: The Maiden and Her Monster
The forest eats the girls who wander out after dark.
As the healers daughter, Malka has seen how the woods 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 Malkas 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