In a world of pagan traditions and deeply rooted love, a girl in jeopardy must save her family and community.
She lives in Toronto..
Buchanan\'s work has been translated into nine languages.
About author(s): Cathy Marie Buchanan \'s previous novels, The Painted Girls and The Day the Falls Stood Still , were both New York Times bestsellers, with The Painted Girls named a best book of the year by NPR, Good Housekeeping , and Goodreads.
Set in a time long forgotten, Daughter of Black Lake brings the ancient world to life and introduces us to an unforgettable family facing an unimaginable trial.
As worlds collide and peril threatens, it will be up to her to save her family and community.
But this girl has an extraordinary gift.
For Devout\'s young daughter, life is more troubled than her mother ever anticipated.
Famine has brought struggle, and outsiders, with their foreign ways and military might, have arrived at the doorstep.
Seventeen years later, though, the settlement is a changed place.
A girl named Devout comes of age, sweetly flirting with the young man she\'s tilled alongside all her life, and envisions a future of love and abundance.
Honor Mother Earth, who will provide at harvest time.
Reap.
Sow.
Here, life is simple--or so it seems to the tightly knit community.
In a northern misty bog surrounded by woodlands and wheat fields, a settlement lies far beyond the reach of the Romans invading hundreds of miles to the southeast.
It\'s the season of Fallow, in the era of iron.
A transporting historical novel by New York Times -bestselling author Cathy Marie Buchanan .
In a world of pagan traditions and deeply rooted love, a girl in jeopardy must save her family and community
