Spinning Silver

Miryem comes from a family of moneylenders, but her father lends freely and rarely asks for repayment, and the household has sunk to the edge of poverty. She decides to do what he cannot. Hardening herself, she goes door to door collecting what is owed, and her success earns her a name for turning silver into gold.

That name travels further than she intends. A boast she should not have made draws the notice of the cold creatures who haunt the wood, and they hand her a challenge. Words carry power in this world, and the fate of a whole kingdom depends on how she answers.

This is a fantasy that retells the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale. It is told through six distinct narrative voices, so the story passes between several people instead of staying with Miryem alone. Each of them has to learn something about sacrifice, power and love.

Expect a fairy-tale setting with a chill running through it, a layered structure, and stakes that widen from one family's debts to the future of a kingdom. It shares an author with Uprooted.