The Blight

Some debts span centuries. Some daughters refuse to pay.

Eva Beauford tried to cheat a blood covenant older than this country.

Using her own potent blood, she believed she could protect the man chosen for her before she drew her first breath and shatter the pact that has bound Beauford daughters for two centuries. Veidrel knew. And the ancient entity answered the only way it knows. With a blight.

Now black ash falls on Beauford Grove like snow. The soil turns to ash. The people are falling sic...