The odds are stacked against Emma.
Fatherless and poor in a remote village where men, money and faith determine everything, her only hope for a decent life is to marry before her eighteenth birthday.
Though her prospects aren't good and her options aren't appealing, to live as an unmarried woman is a life sentence of silence and solitude.
Emma has to make a match.
But when a beautiful, antlered boy appears in her dreams and tempts her to join him in the forbidden woods, a.