[Rotherweird 02] • Wyntertide

**'Intricate and crisp, witty and solemn: a book with special and dangerous properties' - Hilary Mantel on *Rotherweird***

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The town of Rotherweird, made independent from the rest of England by Queen Elizabeth I, has resumed its abnormal normality after a happy ending to the travails of summer.

* **But is it really all over?** *

Disturbing omens multiply: a funeral delivers a cryptic warning; an ancient portrait speaks; the Herald disappears - and democracy threatens the covenant between town and countryside. An intricate plot, centuries in the making, is on the move.

Everything is pointing to one objective: the resurrection of Rotherweird's dark Elizabethan past, and to *one* date: the Winter Equinox.

In Rotherweird, nothing and nobody are quite what they seem.

***Wyntertide *is a twisted, arcane mystery with shades of Deborah Harkness, Kate Mosse, Hope Mirrlees, Ben Aaronovitch, Mervyn Peake and Edward Gorey at their disturbing best.**