Stacey Demichael

The Grey Dawn Stacey Demichael

Though once a wealthy merchant's daughter, Ellalee, impoverished in the years following her father's death, becomes a thief in order to feed her siblings. Her life is forfeit when she is righteously convicted of her crimes, and though she avoids one lethal punishment for her larceny, she is sentenced to another which may be no less deadly. Ellalee becomes a bondservant and finds herself trying to survive in a cursed land ruled by a deeply scarred, beastly earl who is haunted by more than just his past. Something hunts him. Ellalee wonders if God can still exist in land so forsaken. She must hone her Christian faith because whatever haunts these forsaken lands now hunts Ellalee as well.