USA Today Bestseller! “As brilliant as it is bizarre. From the very first page you know you are
in the hands of an author at the height of their abilities. . . . This is the unhinged cannibal
book of my dreams—and my nightmares.” —Ava Reid #1 New York Times bestselling author of A
Study in Drowning From the nationally bestselling author of The Luminous Dead and The Death
of Jane Lawrence a transfixing fever dream of medieval horror following three women in a
besieged castle that descends ravenously into madness under the spell of mysterious godlike
visitors. Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months. Food is running low and there has
been no sign of rescue. But just as the survivors consider deliberately thinning their number
the castle stores are replenished. The sick are healed. And the divine figures of the Constant
Lady and her Saints have arrived despite the barricaded gates offering succor in return for
adoration. Soon the entire castle is under the sway of their saviors partaking in
intoxicating feasts of terrible origin. The war hero Ser Voyne gives her allegiance to the
Constant Lady. Phosyne a disorganized paranoid nun-turned-sorceress races to unravel the
mystery of these new visitors and exonerate her experiments as their source. And in the bowels
of the castle a serving girl Treila is torn between her thirst for a secret vengeance
against Voyne and the desperate need to escape from the horrors that are unfolding within
Aymar’s walls. As the castle descends into bacchanalian madness—forgetting the massed army
beyond its walls in favor of hedonistic ecstasy—these three women are the only ones to still
see their situation for what it is. But they are not immune from the temptations of the
castle’s new masters… or each other and their shifting alliances and entangled pasts bring
violence to the surface. To save the castle and themselves will take a reimagining of who
they are and a reorganization of the very world itself.
