Arya Samarkand And Secret Societies
Cove Bay, Scotland—a place where neither spring nor summer has ever set foot. No sun has ever pierced its ashen skies, only the restless shroud of mist and the fury of sudden tempests. At this desolate edge of the world stands the orphanage of St. Lazarus. The forests that once surrounded it lie dead, the ships have long abandoned these waters, and the nuns whisper prayers in fear of yet more forsaken children appearing at their threshold.
In Edinburgh, the pyres are being prepared for a witch trial, and within the orphanage’s cold, stone walls, one girl is whispered to be the very embodiment of evil. Yet the nuns' fears are but the first shadow cast by something far darker, lurking just beyond the veil of mortal sight…