She

Chilling tale from a time when the Bohemian Forest was deluged with bloodied snow

This story is inspired by one of the greatest natural and human disasters ever to occur in the Bohemian Forest. It is April 1853, and the remote settlements below the Huťský štít peak are awaiting the arrival of spring. For them, however, spring will never come. What comes instead is snowfall so heavy that it buries everything and everyone. Then come hunger, unknown epidemics, horror, and madness. Some choose death. Others renounce their humanity in the fight for survival. Echoes of this long-ago tragedy continue to be passed down by descendants of one of the affected families. Meanwhile, the horrific legacy awaits its revelation.

With elements of both horror and crime, this novel tells an ancient tale of the fight between good and evil, of forgiveness against hatred. It is about fear and misunderstanding passed down from father to son – till the moment someone with no right to a name in a man’s world enters the stage – She.

Petra Klabouchová about her book:

"I was set on the trail of a forgotten story from the mountains of the Bohemian Forest by an old tale of Klostermann’s and a memorial plaque on the wall of a chapel in Cimruky commemorating a long-ago tragedy. The reader should see into the hidden history of old wrongs in stages, as I did when piecing together the old stories. And they will ask themselves whether the predetermined thread of fate can be broken."