Rosamund is an Earth Master in the Schwarzwald, the ancient
Black Forest of Germany. Since the age of ten, she has lived
with her teacher, the Hunt Master and Earth Magician of the
Schwarzwald Foresters, a man she calls “Papa.” Her adoptive
Papa rescued her after her original Earth Master teacher, an
old woman who lived alone in a small cottage in the forest,
was brutally murdered by werewolves. Rosa herself barely
escaped, and this terrifying incident molded the course of
her future.
For like her fellow Earth Masters of the Schwarzwald Lodge,
Rosa is not a healer. Instead, her talents lead her on the
more violent path of protection and defense— “cleansing” the
Earth and protecting its gentle fae creatures from those
evil beings who seek to do them harm.
And so Rosa becomes the first woman Hunt Master and the
scourge of evil creatures, with a deadly specialty in
werewolves and all shapeshifters.
While visiting with a Fire Master—a friend of her mentor
from the Schwarzwald Lodge— Rosa meets a pair of Elemental
Magicians from Hungary who have come looking for help. They
suspect that there is a dark power responsible for a string
of murders happening in the remote countryside of
Transylvania, but they have no proof. Rosa agrees to help
them, but there is a catch: one of the two men asking for
aid is a hereditary werewolf.
Rosa has been taught that there are three kinds of
werewolves. There are those, like the one that had murdered
her teacher, who transform themselves by use of dark magic,
and also those who have been infected by the bite of these
magical werewolves—these poor victims have no control over
their transformative powers. Yet, there is a third kind:
those who have been born with the ability to transform at
will. Some insist that certain of these hereditary
werewolves are benign. But Rosa has never encountered a
benign werewolf!
Can she trust this Hungarian werewolf? Or is the Hunter
destined to become the Hunted?
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