The Skull in the Tree (Tales of the Watchers, #3)

Knight-Mother Arlise Dun rode into Ó Méith in search of a warm meal and soft bed. What she found instead was a skull in an old oak tree. A skull inscribed with dreadful curses on an innocent mother-to-be.

Arlise knows the horror of maledictions bound in blood. Even better, she knows how to break them. But she isn't on business for the Order. She's on leave with her infant daughter, bound for a reunion at Quiet Cove.

If she's to ferret out the hexer before their curse claims a stranger's child...