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A gripping, beautifully written novel that I devoured in a day…as thrilling as it is fascinating Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites

Sweden 1856.

Blackasen Mountain: a distant place of rumour, superstition and now – murder.

They say it was the Lapp who killed the three men.

But something is not right.

Ester knows it – but to help the settlers is to betray her people.

Magnus feels it too. Sent by the Minister to survey the mountain, he cannot resist its mystery.

And Lovisa: banished from the city by her father, travelling with her sister s husband, she is perhaps closest of them all to the wildness of the place.

Three people, caught in the haunting light of the midnight sun.