Seventeen-year-old Morgana has spent her whole life in the small village of Duskhall, learning herbs, remedies, and witchcraft under the watchful eye of an old village witch. Beyond the surrounding forests, most of the world is little more than rumour.
  Then comes the Witch’s Trial.
  Morgana enters the wilderness alone and returns bound by blood to Eldric, a cursed monster hunter who looks more like something from an old warning tale than a man. Somewhere along the way, an ancient seal cracks—and something that should have remained dormant awakens.
  Morgana does not know what it is. She does not know why it woke, what it wants, or why the amulet she carries seems connected to it.
  She only knows that someone else is already searching for answers.
  In a land where old stories are rarely entirely false, witches are tolerated until they become inconvenient, and the Church has its own ideas about what should be feared, Morgana must follow a trail she barely understands—with a cursed creature at her side and very little reason to trust anyone who claims to know the truth.
  There are monsters in the old tales.
  The difficult part is deciding which ones they are.

English Fantasy medieval Fantasy, Romance curses Adventure Fantasy Coming of Age Fantasy, Mystery witch Witchcraft cursed Fantasy Folklore Supernatural mystery