Warning about Swans

Dreamed into existence by Odin, Hilde is the youngest of six swan-cloaked sisters tasked with guarding a Bavarian forest — but her gift is darker than theirs: easing death and guiding souls onward. Lonely and alienated, she strikes a bargain with an ambitious, penniless young baron, trading his fortune for a place in the human world beyond the call of dying souls.

In King Ludwig II's Munich, Hilde sits for a portrait by the non-binary Jewish artist Franz Mendelson, who alone renders her as she truly is — and as she's drawn to Franz's honesty and away from the baron's growing possessiveness, only Franz's art may be able to free her when her swan cloak disappears. A dreamlike fairy-tale reimagining about identity, belonging, and the price of being truly seen.