I Will Hold My Death Close — Stant Litore

Marked for sacrifice by her own father....

A young woman must rely on only her wits and troubled memories of her mother's faith to survive. She flees to the hills, knowing her father and his stone blade may appear at any time to claim her―while the unburied dead of her people also hunt her in the low ravines.

But she remembers how her mother once stood bravely against the dead. And now, in her long flight in the dark, Jepthah's daughter will hold her own death close so that no one can take it from her.

The centuries to come will not remember her name. But generations of young women will climb the hills to remember her.