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.