When Lucia enters the woods she leaves her whole life behind: the tiny village, the rocky soil, the merchant she was meant to marry. It is an impossible risk, but she knows she will never find her heart's desire eking out a life within the confines of a city wall. The forest is dangerous, deep, and alluring, and there she hopes she may yet find the adventure she's always craved. But the woods have many secrets, and it won't be long before she crosses paths with its most notorious inhabitanta man born of lightning and marked by scars across every inch of his powerful body. . .