num_pages: 320
description: Two women. A history of witchcraft. And a deep-rooted female power that sings across the centuries.Once there was a young woman from a well-to-do New England family who never quite fit with the drawing rooms and parlors of her kin.Called instead to the tangled woods and wild cliffs surrounding her familys estate Margaret Harlowe grew both stranger and more beautiful as she cultivated her uncanny power. Soon whispers of witch dogged her footsteps and Margarets power began to wind itself with the tendrils of something darker.One hundred and fifty years later Augusta Podos takes a dream job at Harlowe House the historic home of a wealthy New England family that has been turned into a small museum in Tynemouth Massachusetts. When Augusta stumbles across an oblique reference to a daughter of the Harlowes who has nearly been expunged from the historical record the mystery is too intriguing to ignore.But as she digs deeper something sinister unfurls from its sleep a dark power that binds one woman to the other across lines of blood and time. If Augusta cant resist its allure everything she knows and lovesincluding her very lifecould be lost forever.Don't miss Hester Fox's next novel The Last Heir to Blackwood Library ...where a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must uncover its secrets!Look for these other gothic mysteries from Hester Fox: 
language: English
title: A Lullaby for Witches
publisher: Graydon House