Robin, wildling and sorcerer, has married his love, Mariam. Both of them still apprentices, they are living with Robin's Ma, who is also the town midwife. It is early Spring, and Mariam is heavily pregnant with the couple's first child, known fondly as 'Cabbage'. Cabbage is restless, and having inherited wildling power from both Rob and back up Mariam's family tree, that means Mariam has to put up with starts of magic to go along with normal baby kicks. When those kicks turn into labour, the untamed magic inside Mariam threatens her and her child.
Ma, outside the magic, can do nothing more than look after Mariam's human needs. Rob, too, in this is powerless. Mariam, ignorant of the ways of the Wild Wood, must battle her own body to survive and save her child. Can she make it through her ordeal, and can anyone help her?
When Spring Arrives is book 2 of The Call of Midwinter.
Robin, wildling and sorcerer, has married his love, Mariam. Both of them still apprentices, they are living with Robin’s Ma, who is also the town midwife. It is early Spring, and Mariam is heavily pregnant with the couple’s first child, known fondly as ‘Cabbage’. Cabbage is restless, and having inherited wildling power from both Rob and back up Mariam’s family tree, that means Mariam has to put up with starts of magic to go along with normal baby kicks. When those kicks turn into labour, the untamed magic inside Mariam threatens her and her child.
Ma, outside the magic, can do nothing more than look after Mariam’s human needs. Rob, too, in this is powerless. Mariam, ignorant of the ways of the Wild Wood, must battle her own body to survive and save her child. Can she make it through her ordeal, and can anyone help her?
