Sent to her second Courting Winter, Beriel is the intended victim of a plot engineered by her brother, Guerric, in a bid to usurp the throne. Beriel is known as the Fiendly Princess for her refusal to adhere to some of the social expectations and traditions during the previous Courting Winter, but she is also the rightful Queen and heir to the Kingdom. Through a fortuitous chain of events, she becomes the servant to Beriel, one of the foreign princesses who has come to Trastad for the Courting Winter. She encounters people who shelter and clothe her and help her find a position as a servant. Instead, Elske makes her way north to Trastad, a port city. Fate, however, has other things in store for her. Within the Volkaric, Elske is the Death Maiden, chosen to serve the Volkking into the Afterlife. Their existence is brutal, stark and rigidly defined. Rambles.NET: Cynthia Voigt, Elske Cynthia Voigt,Ĭynthia Voigt returns to the world of the Kingdom, the setting for several of her previous books, with Elske, a tale of loyalty, love and courage.Įlske is a child of the Volkaric, the people known as "Wolfers" who live in a band governed and protected by the Volkking.
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