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Books Excerpt : The #1 New York Times bestselling author and "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, who cannot bear to conform to the life that lies before her.Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of a civil war between renegade king and rebellious parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even the remote tidelands --the marshy landscape of the south coast.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. 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.Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor's ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbors. This is the

Books Excerpt : The #1 New York Times bestselling author and "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, who cannot bear to conform to the life that lies before her.Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of a civil war between renegade king and rebellious parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even the remote tidelands --the marshy landscape of the south coast.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. 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.Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor's ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbors. This is the

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author and "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, who cannot bear to

conform to the life that lies before her.Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in

the grip of a civil war between renegade king and rebellious parliament. The

struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even the remote tidelands --the

marshy landscape of the south coast.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. 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.Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor's

ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbors. This is the

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