The Moon-Marked Maiden

She has a bitter heart. He has a healer’s touch. But she lives with wolves…and he’s the huntsman.

Artemis knows trust equals confinement. After escaping the cursed castle, the starving orphan struggles with anger and distrust while hiding deep in the forest with her ailing grandmother. When she falls ill and can no longer steal food from her favorite red-haired mark, she’s horrified and confused to find the same handsome man nursing her back to health.

Rowan values human lives above all else. When the hooded thief suddenly stops taking the meals he’s carefully packed for her, he tracks her to a dilapidated cottage guarded by wolves. But after he prioritizes healing the deathly ill beauty over decimating the feral pack, he fears leaving them intact will ruin his reputation and destroy his livelihood.

Although Artemis is drawn to his sunny demeanor and endless patience, she knows he’ll demand a payment for his kindness and generosity eventually. And though Rowan fell for the clever, bold girl the moment she first stole from him, he fears she’ll flee as soon as she learns he’s aligned with the hunters combing the woods and threatening the pack.

Can they overcome their differences to save the wolves, or will their polar loyalties separate them for good?

The Moon-Marked Maiden is the second novel in the Daughters of the Curse series, a no heat Red Riding Hood adaptation. If you like slow-burn tension, reluctant trust, and feral loyalty you’ll love Kai Strand’s twisted retelling.

Buy The Moon-Marked Maiden – a fairy tale with teeth – today.

TROPES:

❤️ Red Riding Hood Retelling
❤️ Found family

❤️ Florence Nightingale complex

❤️ Hidden identity

BOOK(S) INCLUDED:

✔️ The Moon-Marked Maiden - Paperback