1392 Into the Storm

By Cherie Baker

If you could live forever, would you want to?

On a wind swept island, a cry of plague runs through the desolate hamlet of Ravenser. One might easily think another outbreak of the Black Death after the great floods would be the most horrendous things that could ever happen to a town on the brink of oblivion. But when a fleeting shadow convinces the town priest the corpse is evil, and the malevolent Baron takes the widow into his care, the villagers sink to their lowest low and turn on one of their own.

Although Barber-surgeon, Julieanna, can to nothing to save the beautiful Isabella from the clutches of the Baron, she refuses to allow the superstitious villagers to throw her neighbour’s corpse into the sea. She knows in her gut that his death was just an accident. With a little time, she’s sure she can prove it to them and chooses to stand vigil all night to make sure his body remains on dry land.

Little did she know it was the worst decision of her life.