By the bestselling author of The
Painted Girls

When a remote,
ancient settlement is threatened, it is up to one girl to save her family and her
community

It’s the season of Fallow, the first century AD. In a misty
northern bog surrounded by woodlands and wheat fields, lies a settlement far
beyond the reach of the Roman invaders, who are still hundreds of miles to the
southeast. Here, life is simple, or so it seems to the tightly knit community.
Sow. Reap. Honour Mother Earth, who will provide at harvest time.

A girl named Devout comes of age. She flirts sweetly with
the young man who has tilled the earth alongside her all her life, envisioning
a future of love and abundance. Seventeen years later, however, the settlement
is a changed place. Famine has brought struggle, and outsiders, with their military
might and foreign ways, have arrived at the doorstep. For Devout’s young daughter,
life is more troubled than her mother ever anticipated. But this girl has an
extraordinary gift. As worlds collide and peril threatens, it will be up to her
to save her family and her community. Immersing readers in a lost world of
pagan traditions, Daughter of Black Lake is a transporting story of
love, family, survival and the sublime power of the natural world. 

“Buchanan skillfully depicts the day-to-day life of the people she calls the ‘bog dwellers’ and the changes introduced to their Iron Age society by the invading Romans . . . . she adds enough historical detail to make her story believable and enjoyable.”