Story Excerpt Sunday: From The Meri by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

The Meri

Mer Cycle Book One

by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

It was called Lagan—”the Little Hollow”—and there had been a homestead there once. A fine homestead with an ample cottage and a big barn and a great forge. There was only burnt rubble now, and tall grass and wildflowers that waved sorrowfully in the wind…

She picked wild roses from the tangle that embraced the fallen chimney. She pricked her fingers on the thorns and bled in penance for making Osraed Bevol so unhappy. What she could not do pen...