"In the age of Iron, a remote, ancient settlement is threatened, and it is up to one girl to save her family's way of life, by the bestselling author of The Painted Girls. In a northern misty bog surrounded by woodlands and wheat fields, a settlement lies far beyond the reach of the Romans invading hundreds of miles to the southeast. Here, life is simple, or so it seems to the tightly knit community. Sow. Reap. Honor Mother Earth, who will provide at harvest-time. A girl named Devout comes of age, sweetly flirting with the young man she's tilled alongside all her life, and envisions a future of love and abundance. Seventeen years later, though, the settlement is a changed place. Famine has brought struggle, and outsiders, with their foreign ways and military might, have arrived at the doorstep. For Devout's daughter, life is more troubled than her mother ever anticipated. But she has an extraordinary gift. As worlds collide and peril threatens, it will be up to her to save her family and community. Immersing readers in a lost world of pagan traditions, Daughter of Black Lake is a transporting story of love, family, survival, and the sublime power of the natural world."-- Provided by publisher.