My Books
- Rivers of Treason (2023)
- Traitor in the Ice (2022)
- The Drowned City (2021)
- A Gathering of Ghosts (2018)
- The Plague Charmer (2017)
- The Raven’s Head (2015)
- The Vanishing Witch (2014)
- Liars and Thieves (A Company of Liars short story) (2014)
- Falcons of Fire & Ice (2012)
- The Gallows Curse (2012)
- The Owl Killers (2009)
- Company of Liars (2008)
- The Deadliest Sin (2014)
- The False Virgin (2014)
- The First Murder (2012)
- Hill of Bones (2012)
- The Sacred Stone (2011)
Book details
Publisher: Headline Review
Publication date: April 6, 2017
ISBN: 9781472235862
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The Plague Charmer
Riddle me this: I have a price, but it cannot be paid in gold or silver.
1361. Porlock Weir, Exmoor. Thirteen years after the Great Pestilence, plague strikes England for the second time. Sara, a packhorse man’s wife, remembers the horror all too well and fears for safety of her children.
Only a dark-haired stranger offers help, but at a price that no one will pay.
Fear gives way to hysteria in the village and, when the sickness spreads to her family, Sara finds herself locked away by neighbours she has trusted for years. And, as her husband – and then others – begin to die, the cost no longer seems so unthinkable.
The price that I ask, from one willing to pay… A human life.
