The Lost Girl

Cantalira the Healer, Book 1

Cantalira never wanted to be different. She never wanted a Mother's mark. You can't choose your family, and who would choose a witch for their mother? She wants nothing more than to be anyone but May Weaver's daughter. The only way that's ever going to happen is outside the High Valley that's protected them from the Inquisition and the Commoners' War. But Canta doesn't know what the world is like down the mountain. She is not prepared to experience it. When she runs away with her boyfriend, she's puts not only herself, but her whole family in danger.

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Slow burn and perfectly disturbing.

All of the things that make Grimdark grimdark from a female perspective. Fills in some blanks in the genre for me. Disturbing but so satisfying. When it turns IT TURNS