The Church of the Wood

In the land of Calundra, there is a saying that everyone knows. Some tales are true, some are false, and for some—it can be hard to tell the difference. It is a land that is given to tales; tales of kings and priests, of woodcutters and village girls, and even of faeries. Father Jared is quite certain that he, of all people, knows which of them are to be believed and which are not. But even this skeptical young man doesn't know what to think of the letter from a dying priest, from a place called the Church of the Wood. Is Father Brion’s story simply madness, or is something else involved?

The faerie child is the kind of creature that people make tales about; one of the mysterious creatures that used to live in Calundra’s many woods. People say that the faeries were evil and that they hated humankind. Because of this, the once endless woods of Calundra are all gone. The kings of the land have cut them down, one by one. Still, there is a tale—a tale about one that was left behind. A deep dark Wood with a Church in it, and a Village just outside . . .