A seamstress in Leeds is helping a new bride out of her dress when she sees dried blood on the corset and finger marks on both arms. She lowers her voice and says there is no reason for a husband to be rough. The bride swears on her mother’s grave that her husband did not do this. Which is true, in the sense that matters, and completely false about the handprints. The Wolf Queen’s Curse by Kaylee Archer builds a whole novel on the gap between those two answers. Where The Wolf Queen’s Curse Comes From Worth knowing before you start, because nobody is putting it on the cover. The copyright page assigns the text to KLA Fricke Inc., which is Kelley Armstrong‘s rights-holding company, and the acknowledgments thank Lucienne Diver, Armstrong’s longtime agent. The supernatural taxonomy is hers too: cabals run by sorcerer families, half-demons sorted into subtypes by power and strength, necromancers who raise as well as listen, witches who cast with words while sorcerers cast with their hands. Anyone who came up …