The Secret Wilderness

NEVILLE - As a traveling tinker, Neville has helped migrants cross the Wilder Lands for nearly twenty years, and has seen it all... until now. After a bad crossing that includes a young woman's death and months of hard travel, Neville and his group are forced to take shelter in an abandoned ruin where they hope to rest and regain their spirits... but they aren't alone.

ADELAIDE - In a small village in the High Country, Adelaide helps her mother and stepfather raise her half-siblings and keep house... until the spring she comes of age. Now able to produce children for the village, she is expected to conform to their rigid laws and choose a husband. With her only love dead and her best friend missing, she has other things on her mind than the village boys.

What happens when a beast comes in from the darkness to share a campfire?

Find about about Adelaide's past in THE SECRET WILDERNESS, the prequel to VIRAGO.