Joanna Holden Bücher

Blanche spends every day dreaming about adventure. But it won't happen. Not in the miserable little farming county she lives in. Here all she can do is work, day in and day out, beside her worn and Blanche worried mother waiting for the day when she'll be old enough to leave. Her only hope seems to be matchmaking her mother to the woodcutter who lives nearby. If she can get her mother to notice him.Then the mysterious stranger shows up. And the animal attacks start. Soon, Blanche is caught up in a magical mystery that is everything she ever hoped for. But as the enemy grows more powerful, things start spiraling out of control. When Blanche's family is threatened, will she be willing to stand up for them and risk all she has worked for? Or will she give way to the darkness that is coming for them all?