Nettle & Bone – Award-winning dark and compelling fantasy about sisterhood, (Paperback)

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Marra has spent most of her life being overlooked. As the youngest sister, raised in a convent and trained to endure rather than act, she watches helplessly as her sisters are married into suffering. When it becomes clear that an abusive prince will never be stopped by polite appeals or distant allies, Marra accepts a hard truth. If anyone is going to end this, it will have to be her.

In Nettle & Bone, Marra seeks out a gravewitch who offers a path to justice, along with three tasks no sensible person would attempt. Completing them draws together an unlikely company, including a reluctant fairy godmother, a disgraced knight, and a demon trapped inside a chicken. What begins as a desperate plan becomes something larger and far more dangerous.

This dark fairy tale reworks familiar motifs into a story about quiet resolve and earned courage. With sharp humour and real menace, Nettle & Bone explores what it costs to choose action over obedience, and the power found in refusing to look away.