About the Book: Valla has always believed her beauty would lift her from the bleak confines of her village—until a perilous journey through the deadly Gottyar Wood leaves her face gruesomely scarred and her future abruptly reversed. When she arrives at Count Leonid’s castle, safety turns out to be an illusion. In this haunting blend of horror, folklore, and fairy tale, Valla must shed the image she was built upon and embrace the wilderness’s brutal power to reclaim her life