Premee Mohamed
"A perfect mix of horror and fantasy."—The New York Times
"The Butcher of the Forest" shows exactly why Mohamed is one of fantasy's rising stars."—The Washington Post
"The Grimm brothers can't hold a candle to Premee Mohamed and her fever dream of a fantasy novella."—Polygon
A world-weary woman races against the clock to survive a deadly forest in this dark, otherworldly
The Empires of Varkal and Med'ariz have always been at war.
Alefret, the founder of Varkal's pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a 'visionary' scientist. But now they're offering him a chance of freedom.
Ordered to infiltrate one of Med'ariz's flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy's population
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