![]() ![]() ![]() This is a problem as his livelihood is a main source of income for her family, but Alinor isn't too sad he is missing as he was abusive to her and an all around horrible guy. Alinor's husband has left months ago on a fishing expedition and never has come back. It's mostly marshlands and their lives are ruled by the tides. I t is dangerous for a woman to be different."Īlinor and her children, Alys and Rob, live on Sealsea Island, which is on the southern coast of England. This is the time of witch mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands. Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor’s ambition and determination mark 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 wisewomen, trapped in 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 every corner of the kingdom, even the remote tidelands -the marshy landscape of the south coast. Goodreads says, " Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of a civil war between renegade king and rebellious parliament. ![]()
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