This fever-dream, fast-paced folk-tale, transports you back to the famine of the 14th Century, but there is more than hunger stalking this village's inhabitants. Expect Horror, Romance and Drama in Ashley McCarthy's debut novel. In the midst of The Great Famine of the Fourteenth Century something is awakened in the nearby woods… As hunger and fever grip Matilda’s village, theft, madness and starvation follows quickly. People are attacked by something powerful and frightening. Then a new enemy emerges; fear. As accusations are hurled will a newly arrived stranger be Matilda’s salvation or downfall?