Stafii

A year after The Village of the Hanged, the narrator returns with Lena to her home village at the foot of the Carpathians – for the wedding of her cousin Ana. He only means to collect stories. He hears of Florica, who spent forty years at a window waiting for a voice she had answered just once. Of an old man who walked barefoot into the marsh one night. Of a bride who vanished at her own wedding twenty years ago. Then, on the wedding night, Ana is gone – and out in the marsh a familiar voice calls his name. He knows the family's rule. Now he has to keep it: whoever answers is lost. Stafii is a true story about family, inheritance and an ancient voice that knows exactly whose name to call. Book 2 of the Carpathian Chronicles.