Song of the Huntress

From the author of Sistersong comes a stunning new folklore retelling, recasting the magical story of Herla and the Wild Hunt into a dark feminist fantasy set in ancient Cornwall.

In centuries past, Herla the Erlking was cursed to bring death to all she meets, leading her immortal warriors known as the Wild Hunt and dreaming of vengeance. The torment of the mortal souls who fall to the sound of her horn have long since ceased to trouble her. Until the day she she spies across the battlefield a queen with piercing eyes.

Æthelburg is a prisoner of her husband’s court, her power dismissed and overlooked because she is a woman. When word arrives at the court that the Wild Hunt has been sighted, she scorns the story as faery tale—until she encounters the legendary Herla.

Drawn together by forces greater than they realize, Herla and Æthelburg will walk a knife’s edge between the living and the dead in a war-torn land as they try to save a kingdom, its magic, and their own souls.