EDarlingHorror
Four hundred years after a mortal woman cursed the Tuatha King, the human world still pays the price. Each year, one daughter is chosen by lottery - a sacrifice to appease the bound gods of the forest.
This year, the name drawn is Clíodhna.
She is meant to walk quietly into death, veiled and drugged, guided by the sacred hound.
Instead, she runs - untrained, wearing her father's clothes, knife trembling in her hand - into the forest that swallowed generations before her.
There, she meets Ailín, the King's son, sent to retrieve the sacrifice. But when he sees her, something ancient stirs - a bond that defies the curse itself.
Together they journey into Ardaíthe, the realm of the Tuatha, where truth and myth blur, and love may be the most dangerous rebellion of all.
A tale of sacrifice, survival, and forbidden love, where one girl's defiance could unravel a curse older than gods.