Seventeen-year-old Mairi Vale has spent her life being overlooked.
Quiet. Unwanted. Easy to ignore.
Then a man follows her into the rowan wood—and Mairi discovers that something ancient has been waiting beneath her skin.
By dawn, the man is dead.
His throat has been torn open. His body has been drained of blood. And Mairi can still taste his fear.
As the Highland clans gather at Dun Eithne under promises of peace, more bodies appear. Each death draws the clans closer to war. Each killing awakens a deeper hunger inside Mairi.
The old stories call her kind the baobhan sith: beautiful women who dance beneath the moon, lure men into the hills, and drink them dry.
But Mairi is no mindless creature.
Someone has awakened her blood deliberately.
Someone is marking the victims.
And someone intends to use her as a weapon against every clan in the Highlands.
The only man who may know the truth is Cael MacRath, a scarred hunter sent to kill creatures like her. He carries cold iron, old secrets, and the guilt of what his family did to Mairi’s mother.
He should be her executioner.
Instead, he becomes the one man who sees the frightened girl inside the monster.
But Mairi’s third feeding is approaching.
When it comes, she will either master the hunger—
or become the queen of every dead woman waiting beneath the hill.
The Girl Beneath the Rowan is a dark Highland romantasy of forbidden love, ancient British folklore, clan betrayal, female rage, and the terrible price of becoming powerful enough to stop being afraid.