In the hidden highland kingdom of Ellenmere, 1583, Isolde Brannock-last witch of her line is arrested for the murder of the Crown Prince and brought to Greymere keep to burn. Her interrogator is Cathán Wycliffe, the Court Sorcerer: the boy who kissed her on a frozen lake at fourteen and vanished into a monastery for nine years, leaving her to grow wild and alone in the Witchwood. He believes she is dead. She believes he abandoned her. Neither is entirely wrong. They have twenty-nine days to find the true killer before she burns. What they find instead is a conspiracy reaching into the king's own cup, a dead prince's hidden child, a soul bound into a raven, and the slow unravelling of everything either of them thought they understood about the craft they carry. Spanning three decades from the frozen lake to a stone house on a northern headland, from the testimony of a terrified woman at a hawthorn tree to two green-eyed ravens on a gate-post in the autumn dark; The Raven Bride of Ellenmere is a novel about the cost of gifts, the patience of love, and what remains when the membrane between the living and the dead grows thin enough to see through.
