Promises to Keep

by Katharine Tree

Don't go into the woods alone. These words ring in Anna Woods' head as her husband, Alexander Smith, returns her to the settlement after rescuing her from the monster Arthur Matheson. They want to believe they can carry on with life as usual, but soon find both their inner and outer worlds in upheaval as the settlement faces plague, famine, and war with a nearby settlement. When a pale stranger rides into camp, she brings death with her and changes Alex and Anna's lives forever. Facing total annihilation, it is time for both of them to keep their promises... or lose themselves.

Promises to Keep brings back all the characters you know and love, and introduces a few new ones. There are new faces, new places, births, deaths, marriages, battles, kidnappings, rescues, clan, family, friendship, love, intense dislike, jealousy, rivalry, promises, trust, responsibility, fealty, feral Picts, looking back to the past, looking forward to the future, looking sideways at each other, and the slow loss and rebuilding of civilization plus all of the blacksmithing, philosophizing, knitting, bagpipes, tartan, tooled leather, pattern-welding, forest foraging, herbal brewing, spell-casting, and frontier medicine sort of goodness you’ve come to expect.

437 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 27, 2014

About the author

Katharine Tree is currently a freelance novelist. She lives in the Puget Sound area with her husband, daughter, and a rumbly old grumblekitty. In a former life she earned degrees in biology, English literature, and linguistics and worked as an AI researcher as well as publishing academically in the fields of humor and computational linguistics. In her current life, when not writing, she gardens in the summer and knits in the winter.