Vengeance wars with mercy as Megge and Amice return to Bury Down, burdened with one question: Will Megge offer her mortal foe the cure only a woman of Bury Down can dispense? As Amice struggles with silence and Megge wrestles with bone-deep dread, their visions and dreams summon myth and memory, death and rebirth. Ancient secrets stir, and with them the spirits of goddesses—and of men—long lost to time.