'Compelling intense storytelling' Julia Green 'Spectacularly good' Jonathan Stroud What
calls across the centuries to three girls drawn together to lay to rest an ancient evil in the
woods? 60 AD A blackbird calls a warning. Aine a slave girl running away from her Roman
masters pauses to listen as she lifts a totemic druid carving she's found in the tunnel where
she's hiding. The last thing she sees is a tangle of matted fur a sheaf of claws a flash of
fangs as she unleashes a hungry animal presence. 1783 AD Centuries later white witch Sarah
Gibson wanders the woods in search of refuge. She's at ease here with the changing seasons the
plants and animals until one moonlit night she senses Aine's terror. The blackbird calls a
warning but Sarah wants to help Aine's restless spirit. Present day Marie has dropped out of
art college and is staying with her aunt for a while. But the woods nearby are hiding
something. Marie can feel it. She hears the local gossip about tragic happenings there.
Hopelessly caught by the ghostly voices of the past that echo uneasily in her present Marie
must pit her wits against powerful old magic.
