The Clouded Land

'Mary Mackie brings all her skill to keep you reading to the last page.' - YORKSHIRE GAZETTE AND HERALD. Eighteen-year-old Katarin is exiled from Germany to her grandmother's home in Norfolk. When, shortly after her arrival, she is cursed by her dying grandfather, Katarin struggles to comprehend the bitterness her mere presence seems to provoke in the household. She begins to realise that she is paying the price of her mother's past, a mystery that no one in her adopted English family will reveal. When the great war cuts Katarin off from her loved ones in Germany, she finds herself drawn to a man whose history is tragically entangled with her own...