The Wolf and the Woodsman Deluxe Collector's Edition -- Ava Reid

<p><strong>Now available in a gorgeous Deluxe Collector's Edition featuring beautiful new cover art, special hardcover case design, illustrated endpapers, and stenciled edges--the stunning debut novel from the #1 <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author of <em>A Study in Drowning.</em></strong></p><p><strong>This story of fantasy, romance, and folklore inspired by Hungarian history and Jewish mythology follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen as they form an unlikely alliance to thwart a tyrant.</strong></p><p>In her forest-veiled pagan village, ?vike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast clearly abandoned by the gods. The villagers blame her corrupted bloodline--her father was a Yehuli man, one of the much-loathed servants of the fanatical king. When soldiers arrive from the Holy Order of Woodsmen to claim a pagan girl for the king's blood sacrifice, ?vike is betrayed by her fellow villagers and surrendered.</p><p>But when monsters attack the Woodsmen and their captive en route, slaughtering everyone but ?vike and the cold, one-eyed captain, they have no choice but to rely on each other. Except he's no ordinary Woodsman--he's the disgraced prince, G?sp?r B?r?ny, whose father needs pagan magic to consolidate his power. G?sp?r fears that his cruelly zealous brother plans to seize the throne and instigate a violent reign that would damn the pagans and the Yehuli alike. As the son of a reviled foreign queen, G?sp?r