Maledictum
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Set in medieval times during a dark winter, seventeen-year-old Zorya is dreading the coming of spring, when she'll be forced to marry a stranger.
With the cold comes a foreign lord from the west and his ill son, who arrive in town to seek shelter for the winter. The lord is eager to marry Zorya to his son, but she senses they are hiding a dark secret.
As snow begins to fall, bodies are found, and people vanish into the night. A monster stalks the town in the darkness, hunting its victims one by one...
Mystery, horror, and romance bloom in the shadows.
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