The Sisters and the Crows: A tale of the treacherous Black Forest

The sisters left the birds cawing malevolently in the forest behind them.

"As Mother always said, see five crows and sickness threatens; see six and death will follow. Good thing for us there were only four,” Marta observed. There was a pause, then Else spoke quietly.

“There were six crows if you count the two dead ones on the floor.”

December 1766. Marta and her sister Else learn that their mother is sick and face a perilous journey home through the Black Forest to see her. Freezing blizzards and unfriendly townsfolk make conditions difficult enough, but all is not as it seems as they travel deeper into the woods. And Marta cannot shake her fear of crows as the sisters encounter the dreaded birds again and again...