Издания и произведения

Роман в традициях «Джейн Эйр» и «Ребекки» с исландским колоритом. Роуса была счастлива, живя с родителями в их оторванной от остального мира деревне, днем она молилась христианскому Богу, а ночью шепталась со старыми исландскими богами. Но после внезапной смерти отца, оставшись с больной матерью на руках, девушка вынуждена согласиться на брак с заезжим торговцем, предложившим неплохое приданое. Роуса переезжает в свой новый дом, который стоит в стороне от прочего жилья, у самого моря. Мужа ее, Йоуна, почти никогда не бывает дома, на общение с местными жителями он наложил запрет. Молодая женщина существует едва ли не в полной изоляции. И…

1686, ICELAND. AN ISOLATED, WINDSWEPT LAND HAUNTED BY WITCH TRIALS AND STEEPED IN THE ANCIENT SAGAS. Betrothed unexpectedly to Jón Eiríksson, Rósa is sent to join her new husband in the remote village of Stykkishólmur. Here, the villagers are wary of outsiders. But Rósa harbours her own suspicions. Her husband buried his first wife alone in the dead of night. He will not talk of it. Instead he gives her a small glass figurine. She does not know what it signifies. The villagers mistrust them both. Dark threats are whispered. There is an evil here - Rósa can feel it. Is it her husband, the villagers - or the land itself? Alone and far…

When Rósa is betrothed to Jón Eiríksson, she is sent to a remote village. There she finds a man who refuses to speak of his recently deceased first wife, and villagers who view her with suspicion. Isolated and disturbed by her husband's strange behaviour, her fears deepen. What is making the strange sounds in the attic? Who does the mysterious glass figure she is given represent? And why do the villagers talk of the coming winter darkness in hushed tones?

Rósa has always dreamed of living a simple life alongside her Mamma in their remote village in Iceland, where she prays to the Christian God aloud during the day, whispering enchantments to the old gods alone at night. But after her father dies abruptly and her Mamma becomes ill, Rósa marries herself off to a visiting trader in exchange for a dowry, despite rumors of mysterious circumstances surrounding his first wife's death. Rósa follows her new husband, Jón, across the treacherous countryside to his remote home near the sea. There Jón works the field during the day, expecting Rósa to maintain their house in his absence with the…