I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman Western the cruel Witch Queen turns

the cruel Witch Queen turns Aina’s every waking moment into a living nightmare

They think that I’m their prey

feel-good cosmic horror that reflects on gaslighting and emotional abuse

from Cambridge

After escaping her attempted assassination in Tarkhany

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman Western the cruel Witch Queen turnsDeep underground, thirty nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girlthe fortieth prisonersits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world