Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales

by Greer Gilman

The demi-mortal daughter of a goddess seeks to overthrow the deities in favor of a world ruled by science and by mortal will in three interconnected tales.



The ritual of Ashes has played out in Cloud for centuries a young girl is chosen to spend a year in silence, except when she speaks for the dead. She serves as the avatar of a goddess’s daughter, and all proceeds according to the laws of magic. But the goddess, Annis, is a tyrant–and the people of Cloud are no longer sure they want to live under her rule.



Cloud & Ashes brings together three tales of the Ashes lineage and its gambit to overthrow the “Jack Daws’ Pack,” a Nebula Award finalist novelette; World Fantasy Award winning novella A Crowd of Bone, and the novel Unleaving.

512 pages, Paperback

Expected publication July 27, 2027

About the author

Greer Gilman has been writing stories set in Cloud, her Northern mythscape, for a quarter of a century. Her love of British lore and landscape, of its rituals and ballads, is a constant in her work; her love of language at its roots. Her books are written for the ear, as much as for the understanding. Like the earliest stories, they are meant to be sung.

Greer Ilene Gilman was educated at Wellesley College and the University of Cambridge, where she studied on a Vida Dutton Scudder Fellowship. At Cambridge, she read Renaissance English and met with Jomsborg, a circle of fantasists. There she heard Alan Garner speak, had tea with Lucy Boston, and began to think of writing myth. A sometime forensic librarian and cataloger of the polyglot at Harvard, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and travels in stone circles.