The Mist and the Tern 

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Shepherd girl Kría longs to escape from an arranged marriage and a world where the penalty for worshiping her mother’s gods and practicing old magic is death. When she meets Dimma, a mysterious woman who claims to be half-mortal, half-Huldra, she thinks an evil entity is out to seduce her, but when Dimma offers to teach her magical staves and seiðr (divination) in exchange for help in combating a creeping darkness, Kría sees a way out. Practical and reserved, Kría is drawn to Dimma’s free sensuality and moved by her penchant for healing wounded things, including Kría herself. 

In Danish-Christian occupied Iceland, anyone who practices magic may be executed for heresy, but Kría will take any risk to learn, even if it means deceiving her parents and her younger sister. There’s one problem: when Kría begins to practice seiðr, she’s plagued by visions of death and Helheim, the Norse underworld. When her younger sister is mistakenly arrested for witchcraft, Kría may be forced to choose between saving her family and being with the woman she has fallen in love with.
 

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