The Gravedigger's Son and the Waif Girl: (Volume 1)

This is one secret he's keeping to himself. And anyway - who would believe him?
Sam Feuerbach's best-selling saga, winner of the well-respected Fantasy Prize 2018 and Kindle Storyteller Finalist:
Farin, the gravedigger's son, lives in the medieval village of Heap. The eighteen-year-old is an outsider, bullied and ostracised by the villagers. His father has succumbed to a life of drinking, and so the young man has no option but to take over the job of gravedigger. Farin's life takes a dramatic twist when the village witch dies and he prepares her for burial. He finds an amulet hanging around the deceased preparer of poisons neck. And he can't resist trying the trinket on...