About this item
After a warlord slaughters her patients, Sister Alessia quits the cloister and strikes out on her own to heal the victims of a brutal dynastic conflict. Her roaming forest camp unwittingly becomes the center of a vengeful peasant insurgency, raiding the forces of both sides to survive. Alessia struggles to temper their fury as well as tend wounds, consenting to ever greater violence to keep her new charges safe. When they uncover proof of a foreign conspiracy prolonging the bloodshed, Alessia risks the very lives she's saved to expose the truth and bring the war to an end. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
About the Author
Eric Lewis is the author of an "excellent debut" that is "dark, brutal and bloody" and "fast-paced & gripping" with "a Robin Hood feel. " The sequel is a "high-energy, atmospheric follow-up" and a "pulse-pounding adventure" that is "sure to please. " He is also the author of several works of speculative short fiction published in the anthology and various other pro, semipro and amateur venues. His short stories are also available in the collections and His greatest writing influences are Frank Herbert, Robert Graves, Sharon Kay Penman, Colleen McCullough, Peter S. Beagle and Joe Abercrombie. By day he is a research scientist weathering the latest rounds of mergers and layoffs and trying to remember how to be a person again long after surviving grad school. When not subjecting his writing to one rejection after another he can sometimes be found browsing antique swords he can't afford, or searching for the perfect hiking trail or archery range. Don't ask where because he's never lived anywhere for longer than five years. He engages in shameless self-promotion on Twitter @TheHeronKing. Details, newsletter & blog at ericlewis. ink.
