Margit Sandemo

"The historic evil curse so feared by the dwindling descendants of the Ice People comes to fruition. A terrifying child, Kolgrim, is born to Sunniva, daughter of the unrepentant witch, Sol Angelica, whom Silje rescued from the plague in the first novel "Spellbound". As Kolgrim grows up, the lives of Silje and Tengel are drawing to a close and the focus moves to their children and grandchildren. A granddaughter Cecilie, governness to the family of King Christian IV, is caught up in the court intrigues in Copenhagen - and with the Thirty Years War raging across Europe, recruiting squads begin dragging off the youngest descendants of the Ice People to fight in that harsh conflict in Germany."--Www.amazon.co.uk.

Sol Angelica var blitt tyve og skulle reise ut i den store verden. Enderlig var hun fri - fri til å lete etter heksene ved Brösarps Backar, fri til å dyrke mørkets fyrste, fri til å gjøre alt hun så lenge hadde drømt om. Men Sol var ikke bare opptatt av den onde. For sine nærmeste ville hun gå gjennom ild og vann, til og med ofre sitt eget liv. In The Depths of Darkness, Sol Angelica, the beautiful and restless niece of Tengel, becomes the focus of the story…At twenty years of age she is able to give full and free rein to her long-held wish to seek out ancient witches covens in the lowlands and to worship the Powers of Darkness unrestrainedly. At last she feels ready to fulfil all her secret and depraved dreams of power and carnal passion. Yet like her uncle Tengel, all her impulses are not evil – it is not only the dark powers that guide her. And she finds she is ready to give her life to protect those nearest and dearest to her…

"Against the background of the continuing Thirty Years War, in "Mortal Sin" Silje's granddaughter Cecilie jeopardises her role as governess at the court of King Christian IV when she becomes pregnant - by a priest! But she finds a good friend in Alexander Paladin, one of the king's closest advisers who is also risking disgrace because he is rightly suspected of homosexual activity. Cecilie attempts to save them both by suggesting they marry and declare her child their own."--www.amazon.co.uk.

Silje og Tengel fant en fredet plett i Isfolkets dal, og Silje var lykkelig som Tengels hustru. Likevel lengtet hun ut, følte seg innestengt i den trange dalen med de merkelige, trangsynte menneskene. Særlig fryktet hun Hanna, den eldgamle heksen som henrykt lærte bort sine knep til lille Sol, Tengels niese. Dessuten hvilte truselen om en kommende katastrofe over dalen. Hanna hadde forutsett den, og hun tok aldri feil... In Witch-Hunt, Silje Arngrimsdotter, the seventeen-year-old heroine of the opening novel Spellbound, struggles to come to terms with the harshness of life in a high mountain valley among the witches and warlocks of the mysterious Ice People. Having fled there for her life with her adored ‘wolf man’ and two foundling infants from the Trondheim plague, Silje has bravely borne their first child. But this life of austere poverty is shattered when bloodthirsty, witch-hunting troops invade the remote valley. Warned in time, Silje, her ‘wolf man’ and their charges flee from the carnage to the lowlands again to begin a new life. But unknowingly are they also carrying with them into the future the accursed heritage of the Ice People?