A Far Path Home

The year is 1076.

At fourteen, Alina is married off to a man she scarcely knows, believing she understands what awaits her. She quickly learns she was wrong. Marriage brings challenges she could never have imagined, and a husband whose ambitions soon thrust her into a fate far from anything she ever desired.

Years later, Alina is forced to leave her homeland and join a fledgling trading colony across the sea. The journey strips her from everything familiar, family, safety, even the landscape she once trusted. But the true danger begins the moment she arrives. Within hours of landing, the settlers are brutally attacked. Alina survives, but alone, stranded in an unforgiving wilderness where every choice may be her last.

As she struggles to endure this new world, shadows from her past resurface with a vengeance, threatening to break her spirit once and for all. With danger encircling her, both old and new, she must summon a strength she never knew she possessed.

Can Alina carve out a life in a land determined to crush her, or will the secrets she carries destroy her before she can begin again?