The Witch's Road

They call them “ragans.” Some call them laum spawn, and sometimes simply — witches. Only they can heal wounds inflicted by beings from the world of Navi. But people fear witches, and fire sorcerers hunt them like wild beasts. It’s all because of a secret hidden in the past of their primordial mothers — laum.

Yasmiena didn’t want such a fate. And yet again and again she is forced to call on the cursed gift — and then flee. It went on like this until one chance brought her to Prirechye — a small village on the border between the living world and the Grey Thicket, which the girl has seen in dreams since childhood.

Now she has to choose: run again, or step toward the nightmares to find answers inside them. And how much time does she have left, if a green-eyed sorcerer is already following her?

5 reasons to read “The Witch’s Road” by Anita Fevers:
• This is a story about searching for home and your place in the world. And about the fact that not everything you want turns out to be what you actually need.
• In the world of “Roads,” there’s no unambiguous evil. Everything is decided by choice. And everyone will have to make it — whether it’s a monster or a person.
• The atmosphere envelops, catches, and draws you into a net from which you don’t want to escape. It leads you farther from city walls to where it smells of forest and river water, herbal tea and fresh bread, sweet mead and bitter wormwood.
• Here, frightening fairy tales and half-forgotten ancient beings come alive — the very ones Grandma once told about by the stove, with the crackling of fire.
• An unobtrusive love line will make your heart tremble with emotion and want happiness for all its participants, even when such an outcome seems impossible.