NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "Lush with secrets, magic, and a past that
won't stay where it belongs, this novel is (quite fittingly)
spellbinding."--JODI PICOULT, author of Wish You Were Here
A deeply atmospheric story about ancestral magic, an unsolved murder,
and a second chance at true love
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: She Reads
Emery Blackwood's life changed forever the night her best friend was
found dead and the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of
murdering her. Years later, she is doing what her teenage self swore she
never would: living a quiet existence on the misty, remote shores of
Saoirse Island and running the family's business, Blackwood's Tea Shoppe
Herbal Tonics & Tea Leaf Readings. But when the island, rooted in
folklore and magic, begins to show signs of strange happenings, Emery
knows that something is coming. The morning she wakes to find that every
single tree on Saoirse has turned color in a single night, August
returns for the first time in fourteen years and unearths the past that
the town has tried desperately to forget.
August knows he is not welcome on Saiorse, not after the night
everything changed. As a fire raged on at the Salt family orchard, Lily
Morgan was found dead in the dark woods, shaking the bedrock of their
tight-knit community and branding August a murderer. When he returns to
bury his mother's ashes, he must confront the people who turned their
backs on him and face the one wound from his past that has never
healed--Emery. But the town has more than one reason to want August
gone, and the emergence of deep betrayals and hidden promises spanning
generations threaten to reveal the truth behind Lily's mysterious death
once and for all.
