Maiden and Her Monster

As the healer`s daughter, Malka has seen how the forest`s curse has plagued her village. But when the Ozmini Church comes to collect its tithe, they don`t listen to the warnings about a monster lurking in the trees. After a clergy girl wanders too close to the forest and Malka`s mother is accused of her murder, Malka strikes an impossible bargain with a zealot Ozmini priest: if she brings him the monster, he will spare her mother from execution. Venturing into the blood-soaked woods, Malka finds a monster, but not the one she expects: an inscrutable, disgraced golem who agrees to implicate herself if Malka will help to free the imprisoned rabbi who created her. But a deal easily made is not easily kept. And as their bargain begins to unveil a much more sinister threat, protecting her people may force Malka to endanger the one person she left home to save - and to face her growing feelings for the very creature she was taught to fear.