The Starving Saints : A Novel

Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months. Food is running low and there has been no sign of rescue. But just as the survivors consider deliberately thinning their number the castle stores are replenished. The sick are healed. And the divine figures of the Constant Lady and her Saints have arrived despite the barricaded gates offering succor in return for adoration.Soon the entire castle is under the sway of their saviors partaking in intoxicating feasts of terrible origin. The war hero Ser Voyne gives her allegiance to the Constant Lady. Phosyne a disorganized paranoid nun-turned-sorceress races to unravel the mystery of these new visitors and exonerate her experiments as their source. And in the bowels of the castle a serving girl Treila is torn between her thirst for a secret vengeance against Voyne and the desperate need to escape from the horrors that are unfolding within Aymar’s walls.