Barrie Anne Blythe and her aunt Charlotte have always known that the other residents of their small coastal community find them peculiar -- two women living alone on the outskirts of town. It is the price of concealing their strange and dangerous familysecret. But two events threaten to upend their lives forever. The first is the arrival of a mysterious abandoned baby with a hint of power like their own. The second is the sudden reappearance of Barrie Annes long-lost husband -- who is not quite the man she thought she married. Together, Barrie Anne and Charlotte must decide how far they are willing to go to protect themselves -- and the child they think of as their own -- from suspicious neighbors, the government, and even their own family...-- Regarded as oddities in their Pacific Northwest home, two women hiding a dangerous family secret find their circumstances upended by a long-lost husband and an abandoned baby with familiar powers. By the author of A Secret History of Witches. Barrie Anne Blythe and her Aunt Charlotte protect their family secret by living an isolated life, but the arrival of a child who may have power like their own and Barrie Anns long-lost husband complicates their efforts to protect themselves. An absorbing tale of love, sacrifice, family ties, and magic, set in the Pacific Northwest in the aftermath of World War II, by the author of A Secret History of Witches Barrie Anne Blythe and her aunt Charlotte have always known that the other residents of their small coastal community find them peculiar -- two women living alone on the outskirts of town. It is the price of concealing their strange and dangerous family secret. But two events threaten to upend their lives forever. The first is the arrival of a mysterious abandoned baby with a hint of power like their own. The second is the sudden reappearance of Barrie Annes long-lost husband -- who is not quite the man she thought she married. Together, Barrie Anne and Charlotte must decide how far