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368 pages, Hardcover
First published July 21, 2020
Blood, blight, darkness, slaughter.
To be a woman is to be a sacrifice.
“she dreamed of scarecrow witches burning like torches in the night, tangled limbs and stolen kisses. in her nightmares, she saw the lovers toiling in the dirt, grasping at each other, teeth bared, pale eyes sharp with moonlight.”
“good people don’t bow their heads and bite their tongues while other good people suffer. good people are not complicit.”so what happens when immanuelle is faced with the prophet himself, fully aware of his crimes and how consciously he has committed them? how does she deal with a tyrannical, virulent, and violent abuser; a rapist, a pedophile, and a murderer?
“true evil, immanuelle realized now, wore the skin of good men.”