Curse for the Homesick

''If you were eighty, and you''d spent your whole life not letting yourself love him, and he was eighty, and he''d never been turned to stone ­­- how much would you regret it?''

The island of Stenland is cursed: women, chosen at random, awaken with three black slashes on their forehead. The first person they meet eyes with turns to stone.

This is how Tess Eriksson''s mother killed Soren Fell''s pa...