Shame Vol. 2: Pursuit

Part 2 in the Shame trilogy. The second book Shame: Pursuit follows Shame's development after escaping her prison and embracing her father's evil nature. Virtue, reborn into the body of Shame's child, has spent 16 years trapped in Cradle, originally created to contain and nurture her daughter. Now it has been corrupted and become a dangerous jungle populated by the twisted torturers that once were dryads and sprites. Outside, Shame's evil power has spread. Many people fall victim to her influence or are put to the sword or flame. Some of the survivors band together and fight back. Of these rebels there is a young man, Merritt. He searches the heart of the Great Swamp to find the one person who might save them from Shame's evil rule, Virtue.