The Alchemist's Child

Alchemy requires sacrifice.
Petra knows all about that: she’s given up her family, her home and her sanity – all for a man she once thought was a wizard.

When incurable daydreamer Terry Morton arrives at her home in the Carpathian mountains, he stumbles across her tragic past and unwittingly threatens to expose a beautiful and terrible secret.

But the mysteries she guards were never going to stay hidden forever; outsiders have arrived asking questions and the region’s despot king is on a murderous quest for immortality.

The one thing she knows is this: to protect her secret, no sacrifice is too great.

THE ALCHEMIST’S CHILD is a modern day fantasy/magical realism novel set in the Carpathians, in the tradition of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane.

CONTENT GUIDANCE
This novel contains depictions of alcohol abuse, sexual assault, and traumatic birth. Please read with care.

Previously published as ‘Izvalta‘