The Devil's Debt

<p><strong>They buried her in the dark. They didn't know they were planting a seed.</strong></p><p><strong>East Anglia 1645.</strong> The Civil War bleeds the country dry but in the village of Oakhaven a different kind of war is waged. Ursula Marlowe is a healer a mother and a woman alone-a dangerous combination in the eyes of the Witchfinder General.</p><p>When a jealous friend a zealous prosecutor and a lustful magistrate conspire to destroy her Ursula is stripped of her life. She is not hanged but <strong>remanded</strong>-thrown into a forgotten cellar beneath the Magistrate's manor to rot in the dark.</p><p>She loses her husband. She loses her son. She loses her name.</p><p>But in the silence of the earth Ursula does not die. She learns. Guided by the whisper of a fellow prisoner through the stone walls she masters the arts of commerce chemistry and patience.</p><p><strong>She claws her way back from the grave not as Ursula Marlowe but as Madame Corvis.</strong></p><p>Wealthy unrecognizable and armed with a terrible brilliance she returns to the valley that broke her. She does not come for justice. She comes for a reckoning.</p><p>She will buy their debts. She will expose their sins. And she will turn their own desires into the cages that destroy them.</p><p><strong>Revenge is a dish best served cold. But Ursula Marlowe prefers hers carved from the bone.</strong></p>