Emi has spent her entire life hiding from the creatures that hunt her. The savage earth spirits are determined to kill her before she can become the living host of a goddess, so she stays hidden--until the day she saves the life of one of her hunters. Shiro isn't the harmless fox spirit she though
Red Winter
โ Scribed by Dan Smith
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 212 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Delivering harrowing adventure and suspense set against an unforgiving landscape, the new novel by Dan Smith will leave you chilled to the bone . . .1920, central Russia. The Red Terror tightens its hold. Kolya has deserted his Red Army unit and returns home to bury his brother and reunite with his wife and sons. But he finds the village silent and empty. The men have been massacred in the forest. The women and children have disappeared.
In this remote, rural Russian community the folk tales that mothers tell their children by candlelight take on powerful significance, and the terrifying legend of Koschei, The Deathless One, begins to feel very real. Kolya sets out on a journey through dense, haunting forests and across vast plains against the bitter winter, in the desperate hope he will find his wife and two boys--and find them alive. But there are very dark things in Kolya's past. And, as he strives to find his family, there's someone--or...
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