Norway, 1581. Sixteen-year-old Sile loses her entire family during a plague epidemic and, having nowhere to live, is forced to wander the streets of Trondheim. On a frosty winter night by a fire where the bodies of those who died of the disease are burned, she meets a mysterious man who is more like a beast than a human. He saves two children from death and forever changes the fate of an entire family. That night, Sile’s destiny will forever intertwine with the family of the People of Ice—witches and sorcerers over whom, for several centuries already, hangs a terrible curse.
Cycle "Saga of the People of Ice":