Blood & Fire: The Rise of Mr Poole - Chronicles of Yerat

Elias is a loving, family man working as a cooper in the sleepy village of Frank's Pool. He cares deeply about his wife, even as she becomes sicker, paler and craves flesh to her own horror. With her condition getting worse Elias is forced to finally confront the truth as his life collapses around him.   As the friends he once knew abandon him, and the supposedly holy Mages of Kintrelle turn him away, Elias has to make a stark choice to help those he loves.
A prequel story to Carys Bateman's novel Enslaved Magik