Dor North: 2 books

Every year the land is reborn, but some years it’s weak. The harvest will fail and the livestock starve unless a spell is cast to give it life. John Sutton belongs to the land. It’s in his bones. When he’s caught spying on the witches, he expects punishment. Instead, he’s made...

I’d dreamed about the door before, on and off ever since I was a teenager. Then it had always been closed to me. It sat in a wall at the bottom of a tower whose ancient stone staircase spiralled along dank walls thick with moss, the water dripping so loudly I thought it would wake me. I thought,...