We know the truths men have forgotten. 'Visceral, twisting, propulsive - Black Wood Women begs to be devoured' Stacey Halls 'Grim and glorious' Daily Mail 'Will leave you breathless' Sunday Post *** The last wolf in England hunts for prey. Exhausted, hungry and alone, she fears for the litter of pups she carries, and the men who seek to wipe her out. Yorkshire, 1649. Since they fled Ireland, Caragh and her family have hidden their true identities to enable them to start a new life in England. But when Caragh finds her parents brutally murdered by a Protestant determined to rid the area of Catholics, she must flee again. Travelling east, she comes to a forest, where she meets a coven of women who wear their hair loose and refuse to follow men's rules. Having found acceptance at last, Caragh is unaware that a different kind of persecution stalks the black wood women, and their days in the forest are numbered.

Gold title ATMOSPHERIC AND RICH TALE OF PERSECUTION AND SURVIVAL: explores the plight of Irish Catholic Caragh, desperately seeking safety after her parents are murdered in the aftermath of the English Civil War, who falls in with a coven of wild women living alone in the forest. TAPS INTO SUCCESSFUL TREND + READY-MADE FANBASE: witches continue to be popular. Title is perfect for fans of Rosie Andrews' The Leviathan, Sarah Perry's The Essex Serpent, Stacey Halls' The Familiars, and Beth Underdown's The Witchfinder's Sister. Witches are also a TikTok favourite: #witchtok has 26.3 billion views and #witchbooks 10.8 million views BRAND-NEW TAKE: explores perennial topic through a little-covered point-of-view of persecuted Irish Catholics on the margins of English society AUTHOR HAS SOLID PLATFORM: with 2.9k Twitter followers and is the author of Ill Will and Walking the Invisible with HQ. Competition: Leviathan;Essex Serpent;Familiars;Hemlock Cure;Revels.

Rosie Andrews;Sarah Perry;Stacey Halls;Joanne Burn;Stacey Thomas.