<p><b>'If you were eighty, and you'd spent your whole life not letting yourself love him, and he was eighty, and he'd never been turned to stone --- how much would you regret it?'</b><br><br>The island of Stenland is cursed: women, chosen at random, awaken with three black slashes on their forehead. The first person they meet eyes with turns to stone.<br><br> This is how Tess Eriksson's mother killed Soren Fell's parents. I