Book Synopsis This New York Times bestseller from one of the great storytellers of our time ( San Francisco Book Review ) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, living in a dangerous time for a woman to be different. But this is the time of witch-mania, when it is dangerous for a woman to be different.-Provided by publisher.
Suspected of possessing dark secrets in a suspicious country, Alinors ambition and determination marks her out from her neighbors. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the run and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life. Alinor a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. About the Book Midsummers Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament.
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