At first it seems it is an eight-foot tall monster with a mouth full of needle-like teeth, giant antlers sprouting from its head, green blood, and pale, waxy skin that is not quite flesh and not quite wood.

The soldiers fleeing defeat at the hands of the Pecheneg calvary that slaughtered their king and smashed the Russian army end up in a ancient forest that is home to this dark being. And mostly they die–horrible, bloody, awful deaths.

Until they meet Svetlana, a young woman living alone in the forest. She promises to take the few of them who are still alive to the edge of the forest so they can find their way home.

But most soldiers have done horrible things and seen worse, and Svetlana is all by herself in these woods. She probably shouldn’t trust them. What choice does she have, though? It’s the only way she can be rid of them.

Only, the soldiers may have mistook who their real nemesis is.

Lord of the Forest is retribution served up with lots of blood. Everyone gets what’s coming to them.