Unfortunately, Sorcha can't reveal to Hugh her role in helping Simon, for she has had to take an oath of silence until she completes the shirts. British nobleman Hugh of Harrowfield rescues her from the attacker while on a search for his missing brother, Simon, whose life Sorcha has saved earlier. As she begins her task in the forest, she is raped and forced to flee. Only their sister, Sorcha, can save these sons of an Irish chieftain by weaving magical shirts that will turn them back into human beings. Six brothers have been turned into swans by their wicked stepmother. This imaginative retelling of the Celtic Swans myth begins a promising new British romantic fantasy series. Juliet Marillier is a rare talent, a writer who can imbue her characters and her story with such warmth, such heart, that no reader can come away from her work untouched.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. But magic knows no boundaries, and Sorcha will have to choose between the life she has always known and a love that comes only once. When she is kidnapped by enemy forces and taken to a foreign land, it seems that there will be no way for her to break the spell that condemns all that she loves. To reclaim the lives of her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has ever known, and embarks on a journey filled with pain, loss, and terror. For her father has been bewitched, and her brothers bound by a spell that only Sorcha can lift.

Lord Colum of Sevenwaters is blessed with six sons: Liam, a natural leader Diarmid, with his passion for adventure twins Cormack and Conor, each with a different calling rebellious Finbar, grown old before his time by his gift of the Sight and the young, compassionate Padriac.īut it is Sorcha, the seventh child and only daughter, who alone is destined to defend her family and protect her land from the Britons and the clan known as Northwoods. Daughter of the Forest is a testimony to an incredible author's talent, a first novel and the beginning of a trilogy like no other: a mixture of history and fantasy, myth and magic, legend and love.

Daughter of the forest trilogy