The Scald Crow
(Beyond the Faerie Rath Book 1)
By Hanna Park
Publication Date: 26th May 2025
Publisher: Baisong Press
Print Length: 260 Pages
Genre: Fantasy / Romance
Calla left her life behind, haunted by a curse she cannot control. She seeks refuge in the land of a thousand hellos, Ireland, for a fresh start—a place where no one knows who or what she is.
Colm fled from Clonmara seven long years ago, but now it’s his father’s birthday, and the clan has gathered to celebrate the ould one. Each day brings back the memories that ruined him.
Saoirse dwells in the shadows of a lost love, unwilling to move on and unable to forget. The crystals say one thing, but the cold, hard truth tells another.
Ciarán walked away from the woman he loved for the fun, for the craic. He didn’t realize that one rash decision would impact the lives of so many, least of all his own.
Four broken hearts, brought together by the thread of love.
✧ Review ✧
Calla doesn’t arrive in Ireland full of hope; it feels more like she’s run out of options. Losing her job has already knocked her off balance, and inheriting a property from someone she’s never heard of merely gives her somewhere to land, not necessarily a place where she belongs. From the beginning, there’s a sense that this won’t be a clean reset. Her visions are a curse that she thas tried all her life to keep hidden, because when people find out they shun her.
Colm’s situation is almost the opposite. He is tied to his origins whether he likes it or not. Family, memory, and especially the disappearance of his brother, Ciarán, quietly but heavily loom in the background of his life. When Calla and Colm meet, there’s no slow build. It feels immediate, as if something clicks into place before either of them has time to question it.
Their relationship is swoon worthy yet also frustrating, both wanting to be together in all sense of the word but Colm holds back, wanting a longer more grounded relationship with her then one based on sex alone. Still. the scenes where they are togetther and where temptation takes hold are very sensual.
There is a secondary story running along theres, and that is of Ciarán, the brother that went missing, only he isn't missing he is just somewhere other. He is alive, but he isn't aloud to live. His partner in the human world, Saoirse, has to carry the weight of his loss, hanging onto the past almost afriad to let him go.
This book is a real treat for fans of "Romantasy" novels.
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Hanna Park
`I began my writing career in the pre-dawn of a winter morning while my husband snored like a train. We could call my husband the catalyst. If it weren’t for him, I would never have gone to the kitchen to make a pot of coffee, feed the cat, and sit on the loveseat in front of the fire. It was there, in those moments of wondrous quiet, that I did something I had never thought possible. I opened my laptop, and while the coffee went cold, I wrote a story. My husband had no idea that these sojourns to the loveseat in front of the fire would become a daily occurrence, that writing would become an obsession, but the cat knew. She knows everything.
I write stories that make you laugh, make you cry, and make you love. Thank you, friends, for reading!
In the beginning, there was an empty page.
I am a writer who lives in Muskoka, Canada, with a husband who snores, a hungry cat, and an almost perfect canine––he’s an adorable little shit.
