After losing her job and her partner in one fell swoop, journalist Elspeth Reeves is back in her mother\'s house in the sleepy village of Wilsby-under-Wychwood, wondering where it all went wrong.
As more murders follow, Elspeth.
Elspeth recognizes these from a local myth of the Carrion King, a Saxon magician who once held a malevolent court deep in the forest.
Then a body is found in the neighbouring Wychwoods: a woman ritually slaughtered, with cryptic symbols scattered around her corpse.
After losing her job and her partner in one fell swoop, journalist Elspeth Reeves is back in her mother\'s house in the sleepy village of Wilsby-under-Wychwood, wondering where it all went wrong