Their Own Dark

You know these ballads. For two hundred years, they were sung as his story. You have never heard them like this.

In seven short story retellings of Scotland's oldest, darkest ballads, the women those songs reduced to warnings, witches, and casualties take up the telling themselves. Nannie reveals the dance was never the scandal-it was the only freedom she'd ever had, until a drunk man named her Cutty Sark, and she made him regret it. Janet grips the burning iron through Tam Lin's every shape...