Liska knows that magic is monstrous, and its practitioners are monsters. She has done everything possible to suppress her own magic, to disastrous consequences. Desperate to be free of it, Liska flees her small village and delves into the dangerous, demon-inhabited spirit-wood to steal a mythical fern flower. If she plucks it, she can use its one wish to banish her powers. Everyone who has sought the fern flower has fallen prey to unknown horrors, so when Liska is caught by the demon warden of the wood\u2014called The Leszy\u2014a bargain seems better than death: one year of servitude in exchange for the fern flower and its wish.
\nWhisked away to The Leszy\u2019s crumbling manor, Liska soon makes an unsettling discovery: she is not the first person to strike this bargain, and all her predecessors have mysteriously vanished. If Liska wants to survive the year and return home, she must unravel her taciturn host\u2019s spool of secrets and face the ghosts\u2014figurative and literal\u2014of his past. Because something wakes in the woods, something deadly and without mercy. It frightens even The Leszy\u2026and cannot be defeated unless Liska embraces the monster she\u2019s always feared becoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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