The Black Bow: A Story Of The Thirty Years War

If you enjoy historical fiction with rich characters, mythic elements, and a powerful sense of time and place, The Black Bow might be a compelling addition to your TBR list.

Erich, a German Protestant soldier during the Thirty Years' War, rescues Mara, an accused witch, from torture and execution by burning. As they travel across a war-torn landscape towards the convent where she was raised, founded centuries earlier by Hildegard of Bingen, they are joined by outcasts and survivors, each pla...