Guided by the Otherworld people known as Fair Folk, Liadan walks a long and twisted path that leads her all over the land of Erin, discovering shocking things about her family, her friends.and the Painted Man. The fierce, tattooed leader is a mystery Liadan must unravel-who he is, where he comes from, why he cannot abide darkness, and why he despises women so much that he can't stand being in her presence. The outlaws respect her greatly-except for one, their Chief, the notorious 'Painted Man'. Despite a fearsome reputation, these strange warriors aren't abusive or even rude to her-all they want is for her to heal their friend, a wounded blacksmith. While traveling through a small village, Liadan is taken by a pair of men belonging to a notorious band of outlaws. Liadan is an exceptionally talented healer who is also supernaturally gifted receiving sporadic visions of the present and future, able to hear and see beings of the Otherworld, and she has also inherited her mother's ability to communicate silently, mind-to-mind, with her twin brother Sean.

Son of the Shadows is the story of Sorcha's younger daughter, Liadan (Lee-a-dan). As months and even years pass by, Sorcha's lonely existence is only brightened by her hope of breaking the spell on her brothers.and a foreign man nicknamed 'Red'. Terrible events hinder her progress and eventually take her further and further away from her home. Living in hiding, Sorcha must avoid discovery, survive off the land, and toil night and day to complete her task without the benefit of any tools of the trade, using only what the forest around her can provide-all while keeping silent and bearing unfathomable loneliness. They have been turned into swans and can only be returned to their true forms if she creates a shirt for each brother with her own hands - and she must remain completely mute until the task is finished. A 13-year-old girl, Sorcha, (pronounced Sor-ka or sometimes Ser-ha) must sew six shirts from a painful nettle plant in order to save her brothers from a witch's enchantment. Daughter of the Forest is based loosely on ' The Six Swans' (a story that has many versions, one of which is recounted by Hans Christian Andersen).

Daughter of the forest trilogy