When Lauren Durough turns down a Stanford education and a trust fund, she isn’t just making a statement. She’s choosing to live life on her own terms.
Taking a job transcribing 17th-century journal entries for the prickly and secretive Abigail Boyles, Lauren is swept into the voice of Mercy Hayworth, a teenager condemned in the Salem witch trials. Mercy’s world is governed by fear, superstition, and the deadly cost of being misunderstood.
As Lauren digs deeper, she begins to suspect Mercy’s tragic past is tangled with Abigail’s bitter present and perhaps even her own unfolding future. Secrets long buried resurface, demanding that Lauren face the truths she’s been avoiding.
Can she really see herself clearly, or is she just another biased observer pretending to know better?
