'A delicate weaving of myth and history The Witch and the Tsar breathes new life into stories
you think you know' Hannah Whitten New York Times bestselling author of For the Wolf Yaga
lives deep in the Russian forest tending to any that call upon her for her healing potions and
vast wisdom. She has been alone for centuries with only her beloved animals for company. But
when Tsaritsa Anastasia wife of Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich shows up at Yaga's cottage on the brink
of death Yaga is compelled to travel with her to Moscow to keep her safe. However the Russia
Yaga sees as she makes her journey to the heart of the country is one on the brink of chaos.
Tsar Ivan - soon to become Ivan the Terrible - grows more volatile and tyrannical by the day
and Yaga believes the tsaritsa is being poisoned by an unknown enemy. But what Yaga cannot know
is that Ivan is being manipulated by powers far older and more fearsome than anyone can
imagine. Set in sixteenth-century Russia The Witch and the Tsar upends the stories we know of
Baba Yaga as the bony-legged witch of Slavic fairy tales and the stuff of nightmares. For
beyond the rumours of her iron nose fangs for teeth and house on chicken legs is the story
of a woman so wise and strong that she has to be cloaked in lies to hide her true power.
