Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Eastern Europe—early seventeenth century

The Song


1. Deep in the Woods

2. Slivovitz and Snow

3. The Suicide’s Burial

4. The Goose

5. St. Andrew’s Eve

6. The Dulcimer’s Melody

7. Sheep and Wolves

8. The Shadow Queen

9. The Eternal Return

10. Refusal

11. Visitors

12. Closer

13. And Closer

14. Creeping

15. The Waters of Chust

16. Agnes

17. The Wedding of the Dead

18. At the Threshold

19. Turnings

20. Hands in the Dark

21. Threads

22. Calling

23. Things to Cover Our Dead

24. The Hut

25. The Winter King

26. Escape

27. The Island

28. The Dream of the Queen

29. Ancestors and Hostages

30. The Elders

31. Village Talk

32. Stillness

33. Tomas

34. The Camp

35. The Approach

36. Ordeal

37. The Sword

38. The Song of the Miorita

39. Resurrection

40. A Perfect Shade of Green


Author’s Note

About the Author

Also by Marcus Sedgwick

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