The Tithe of Thorns
Three children gone from a river village in a month, and the village has sent for a hunter it cannot afford. Halvard Kess has four doses of thornwine left, a church at his back that wants his trade dead, and a village that is lying to him.
Sign in to begin- Genre
- Dark fantasy
- Reading time
- 1½–2½ h
- Told in
- Third person, close, past tense
- Your choices
- at least every 6 pages
Where it begins
- dread
- weary decency
- black humour
- river-cold grief
Halvard Kess, an ageing thornsworn hunter with a broken licence, is hired by the river village of Drevnica to find what has taken three of its children in a month. The village is hiding a bargain it made seven years ago with the thing in the reeds, and the Order of the Still Bell has sent a brother to take the contract, and the trade, away from men like Kess for good.