England is in the grip of a bloody civil war that reaches into the most remote parts of the kingdom. She shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marshy landscape of the Tidelands, not knowing she is leading a spy and an enemy into her life.
Instead she meets James, a young man on the run. Until she can, she is neither maiden nor wife nor widow, living in a perilous limbo. A country at war A king beheaded A woman with a dangerous secret On Midsummers Eve, Alinor waits in the church graveyard, hoping to encounter the ghost of her missing husband and thus confirm his death. 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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