A Sorceress Comes to Call export TPB – Kingfisher T. (2024)

T. Kingfisher, the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author, presents a dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm’s Goose Girl, filled with secrets, murder and forbidden magic. Cordelia knows that her mother is unusual. Their house has no doors between rooms because there are no secrets in this house, and Cordelia is not allowed to have a single friend, unless her mother’s beautiful white horse, Falada, counts. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is during her daily rides with him. Her mother’s other peculiarities are harder to ignore. Other parents cannot force their daughters to remain silent, motionless and obedient for hours or days at a time. Other mothers are not sorcerers. After a suspicious death in their small town, Cordelia’s mother insists that they leave in the middle of the night, riding away together on Falada and abandoning everything Cordelia has ever known. They arrive at the remote country manor of a wealthy older man, the Squire, and his unmarried sister, Hester. Cordelia’s mother plans to lure the Squire into marriage, but Cordelia knows this can only bring trouble for the bumbling gentleman and his kind, intelligent sister. Hester notices how Cordelia shrinks away from her mother and sits eerily still at dinner every night. To save her brother from bewitchment and rescue the terrified Cordelia, Hester must confront a wicked witch of the worst kind.