Falada

Where I defend,
I will kill and rend,
For the word of witch
No man can bend

As the daughter of a queen who was also a vengeful and powerful witch, Géanna had always known that the wide world held terrors -- her own mother was one of them.

"Betray a witch, and you won't just level a village," her mother would smile. "Betray a witch, and the very air itself will burn and shatter across the miles and the storm will take your soul."

Now Géanna was faced with marriage to a stranger -- a king in a neighboring country -- along with a journey, a hidden evil, and an unthinkable choice. She would only have her friend, the talking horse Falada, to give her counsel in a new and dangerous land -- but Falada had his own secrets.