

By telling it, she transforms both their lives.Īs in her award-winning debut novel, Eve Green, Susan Fletcher shows that she is ''a novelist with the soul of a poet'' ( Booklist). Hers is a story of passion, courage, love, and the magic of the natural world. As she awaits her death, she tells her story to Charles Leslie, an Irish propagandist who seeks information she may have condemning the Protestant King William. Forty miles south, brilliant, captivating Corrag-accused witch and orphaned herbalist-is imprisoned in the Scottish highlands for her involvement in the massacre. Thirty-eight members of the MacDonald clan are killed by soldiers who had previously enjoyed the clan's hospitality.

A breathtaking novel of passion and betrayal in seventeenth-century Scotland and the portrait of an unforgettable heroine accused of witchcraft.įebruary 13, 1692.
