ARGONAUT BOOKS

An old soldier carves a croft out of the Finnish forest and calls it home, but try as he might to tame the land, its wild magic endures. For centuries his descendants will work the farm, through days of plenty and famine, love and war, their fates entangled with the rhythms of the ancient wilderness, where mysterious shapes flit between the trees and danger lurks in the treacherous fen. Like dragonflies darting over the marsh, their lives glimmer briefly and then are gone - a young girl entranced by the forest folk, afaithless fianc who meets his match beneath the age-old branches, a farmhand ...Read More