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In the tradition of Philippa Gregory's smart, transporting fiction comes this tale of dark suspense, love, and betrayal, featuring two star-crossed sisters, one lost and the other searching. Bright and inquisitive, Hannah Powers was raised by a father who treated her as if she were his son. While her beautiful and reckless sister, May, pushes the limits of propriety in their small English town, Hannah harbors her own secret: their father has given her an education forbidden to women. But Hannah's secret serves her well when she journeys to colonial Maryland to reunite with May, who has been married off to a distant cousin after her sexual misadventures ruined her marriage prospects in England. As Hannah searches for May, who has disappeared, she finds herself falling in love with her brother-in-law. Alone in a wild, uncultivated land where the old rules no longer apply, Hannah is freed from the constraints of the society that judged both her and May as dangerous-too smart, too fearless, and too hungry for life. But Hannah is also plagued by doubt, as her quest for answers to May's fate grows ever more disturbing and tangled Front Cover -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- Books by Mary Sharratt -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraphs -- Prologue -- Part I -- 1. The Dream of Comets -- 2. Pot of Honey -- 3. Fog -- 4. The Earth Demands Blood -- 5. The Cards -- 6. The Seeds -- Part II -- 7. The Bower of Eden -- 8. Anne Arundel Town -- 9. The Dark Green Place -- Part III -- 10. A Fish on Land -- 11. The Whole Cloth Unraveled -- 12. The Bed of Skins -- 13. The Crack in the Cradle -- 14. Rabbit Skin -- Part IV -- 15. Near Drowning -- 16. The Pact -- 17. Shadow Catcher -- 18. A Woman's Fate -- 19. Above Rubies -- 20. His Wild Things -- 21. Cold Clay -- 22. Quiet as Bones -- 23. Made to Shine -- 24. Snake-Tongue -- 25. Join the Dance -- 26. Foxglove for the Heart -- 27. Poison -- 28. Heart Pierced by Three Arrows -- 29. If I Could Be Faithful -- 30. Down in the Hollow -- 31. Even in Death -- 32. An Empty Chamber -- 33. Ash -- 34. The Lost Sister -- Part V -- 35. At the Sign of the Mortar and Unicorn -- 36. The Vanishing Point -- Afterword
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