Clover is the sister she remembers-except she's still seven years old, the age she was when she vanished. When she receives a call about her youngest sister, Clover, she's initially ecstatic. Twenty-two years later, Luna has been searching for her missing sisters and mother. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. When two of her daughters go missing, she's frantic. When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it's an opportunity to start over with her three daughters-Luna, Sapphire, and Clover.
The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting. Twenty years later, one is found-but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. (Oct.About the Book "Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Agent: Deborah Schneider, Gelfman Schneider Literary/ICM Partners. Supernatural suspense fans will be well pleased. Nebulous plotting abounds, but breathless pacing, evocative prose, and a hopeful denouement leave readers feeling gratified. Cooke skillfully intercuts the two timelines, maximizing tension, while occasional passages from a 1662 grimoire provide history and context.
Luna is elated when the Scottish police report that Clover has finally been found and taken to an Inverness hospital, but upon arriving at Clover’s bedside, Luna finds not the 29-year-old she expects, but a child for whom no time has passed. Flash forward to 2021 when all Luna remembers about living on Lòn Haven is that after her sisters went missing, Olivia abandoned Luna and vanished.
Liv scoffs at rumors regarding a curse, but then tragedy strikes. In 1998, artist Olivia Stay and her daughters-Sapphire, 15 Luna, 10 and Clover, seven-move to Lòn Haven, a Scottish isle, after Liv is hired to paint a strange mural inside the Longing, a 100-year-old lighthouse built on the site of a prison for alleged witches. Cooke ( The Nesting) fuses mystery with horror in this atmospheric thriller.
0 kommentar(er)
