Murkmere

Aggie lives a quiet, ordinary life in a village where nobody questions the Ministration or the birds, the divine beings the community worships. Her routine changes when the disabled master of Murkmere, a nearby manor, asks for her to serve as companion to his ward, Leah. Aggie agrees, and gradually grows close to Leah, a wild and unusual girl who longs to leave the estate and the steward Silas, who holds considerable power there.

As the household prepares for a ball marking Leah's sixteenth birthday, Aggie becomes caught up in the schemes surrounding Murkmere, Leah, and the mysterious Master. The atmosphere is tense and eerie throughout, and the story sits somewhere between recorded history and myth.