The Ballad of Brave Janet

A retelling of a medieval Scottish ballads, with lush worldbuilding, endearing characters, and an ending that satisfies.

The servants and cottars of Carterhaugh whispered caution to all the young maidens, forbidding them to enter the woods.  For a fae knight roamed those words, seeking maidenheads or wealth as tithes to his queen. 

Lady Janet of Carterhaugh, neither modest nor chaste never card for the rumor. She did as she pleased in all other matters. However, for her widowed father's sake, she ventured no further than the bower. 

Until, one fateful evening when a horse covered in blood and no rider galloped onto her family's ancestral lands...

Janet ventures into the woods on the horse's back to seek it's rider, fearing the worst has come to one of her father's Samhain guests. There's something peculiar about her mount and the place where she indeed finds a wounded knight.  

Nursing him back to health, Janet falls for the handsome Tam Lin. However, there love was not meant to be. He's made a vow and must return to faerie.

Will Janet accept that Tamlin is the property of the queen of the faeries, or will she fight to win his freedom?