"For the witches of Nyhelm, a 'witch-home' is a place of power, a fortress, and a sanctuary. It can also be a trap."
Calia is the child of a witch who lost her home and her life. In an effort to protect their daughter, Calia's father kept the girl's identity as a witch secret from everyone, including Calia. Raised as a hunter, she only learns her true heritage at a time when her people are in danger of passing from the world completely. There's a sickness ravaging all the witch-homes, a sickness that spreads ...
"For the witches of Nyhelm, a 'witch-home' is a place of power, a fortress, and a sanctuary. It can also be a trap."
Calia is the child of a witch who lost her home and her life. In an effort to protect their daughter, Calia's father kept the girl's identity as a witch secret from everyone, including Calia. Raised as a hunter, she only learns her true heritage at a time when her people are in danger of passing from the world completely. There's a sickness ravaging all the witch-homes, a sickness that spreads through the earth itself and leaves its victims catatonic, insane, or dead.
Calia joins forces with Taleera, a witch whose home was far enough from the blight to escape the worst of its effects, but the sickness is spreading quickly and even Taleera is running out of time. Joined by a rogue mythsinger named Charre who sees the potential for a grand ballad in their struggle, Taleera must keep her sanity long enough to teach the ways of her people to Calia before it is too late. Calia in turn must use her skills as a hunter to track down and destroy the cause of the sickness, or fail and watch her heritage and her hopes for the future die with the last of the witches.
"Richard Parks' short fiction has appeared in such places as Asimov's SF, Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales and Fantasy Magazine, among others. His work has been nominated for both the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award. He's a native of Mississippi, USA, where groupies are too busy chasing the shades of Eudora Welty and William Faulkner to bother him much."
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Overview
Calia is the child of a witch who lost her home and her life. In an effort to protect their daughter, Calia's father kept the girl's identity as a witch secret from everyone, including Calia. Raised as a hunter, she only learns her true heritage at a time when her people are in danger of passing from the world completely. There's a sickness ravaging all the witch-homes, a sickness that spreads ...