She went into the ground a woman and came back something the world doesn't have a name for yet.
Grace Pritchard is home. Changed in ways her team can see but can't measure, carrying a fire that isn't hers alone anymore. Marcus is still writing everything down. Father Marsh is still asking the questions that don't have clean answers. And the garden that held her for two years is doing something at night that nobody wants to say out loud.
Then the dream comes.
Across the Atlantic, on a wind-stripped island older than the myths built on top of it, something is feeding. The Mither o' the Sea has held it at bay for centuries. She's losing. And what she's screaming across the water sounds enough like a woman drowning that people keep walking off the cliffs to help her.
Grace's team crosses the Pentland Firth into Orkney's cold, treeless dark. What waits there isn't hiding. It's patient. It's vast. And it's been curious about the merged thing since before they ever left home.
Unega Atsliv is Book Ten of the Darkwood Legacy series.
