What if your grandmother's warning were a matter of life and death? When the narrator falls in love with Lena, a Romanian woman, he has no idea what he's getting into: a village at the foot of the Carpathians that the locals know by only one name the village of the hanged. At first it's just small things: a cat that flees from his new girlfriend, voices calling names in the night, knocking at windows where no one stands. But the deeper he sinks into his new family's life, the clearer it be...

A year after the events of The Village of the Hanged, the narrator returns to Lena's home village to marry her and is drawn deeper into the darkness his first book only hinted at. He hears of Florica, who waited forty years by a window for a voice she had answered only once. Of men who vanished without a trace, and women found days later in the marsh, changed. And on his own wedding night, he must learn the family's second rule: whoever answers is lost. Stafii is a true story about love, i...