Starving Saints

Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months—its stores empty, its people on the verge of thinning their own number—when salvation arrives through the barricaded gates: the Constant Lady and her Saints, who fill the larders, heal the sick, and ask only adoration in return. Soon the whole castle feasts, intoxicated, on food of terrible origin. Three women are caught at the center: Ser Voyne, a war hero sworn to the Lady; Phosyne, a half-mad nun-turned-sorceress racing to learn what these visitors truly are; and Treila, a serving girl nursing a secret vengeance and desperate to escape. A feverish, sapphic medieval horror about hunger in all its forms.