Book description
England, 1321. Deep in the heart of countryside lies an isolated
village governed by a sinister regime of Owl Masters - theirs is a
pagan world of terror and blackmail, where neighbour denounces
neighbour and sin is punishable by murder.
This dark status quo is disturbed by the arrival of a house of
religious women, who establish a community outside the village. Why do
their crops succeed when village crops fail; their cattle survive
despite the plague? But petty jealousy turns deadly when the women
give refuge to a young martyr. For she dies a gruesome death after
spitting the sacramental host into flames that can't burn it - what
magic is this? Or is the martyr now a saint and the host a holy relic?
Accusations of witchcraft and heresy run rife while the Owl Masters
rain down hellfire and torment on the women, who must look to their
faith to save them from the lengthening shadow of Evil ... a shadow
with predatory, terrifying talons.
