Aren Bergensdatter stands on the craggy coast watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm Forty fishermen including her brother and father are drowned and left broken on the rocks below With the menfolk wiped out the women of the tiny Northern town of Vardø must fend for themselves Three years later a sinister figure arrives Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland where he burned witches in the northern isles He brings with him his young Norwegian wife Ursa who is both heady with her husband's authority and terrified.
mercies epub The Mercies PDFAren Bergensdatter stands on the craggy coast watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm Forty fishermen including her brother and father are drowned and left broken on the rocks below With the menfolk wiped out the women of the tiny Northern town of Vardø must fend for themselves Three years later a sinister figure arrives Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland where he burned witches in the northern isles He brings with him his young Norwegian wife Ursa who is both heady with her husband's authority and terrified.