
Elspeth Blackwood and her older sister, Isla, were raised in a family of trusted healers. They live together in a cottage outside Fife with Elspeth’s 4-year-old daughter, Annabel, who’s called Anna. Anna’s father was a sailor who headed out to sea shortly after learning Elspeth was pregnant, never to be heard from again. The two sisters are enjoying a quiet respite by the shore when they realize Anna has disappeared. Terrified, Elspeth finds the child beneath a cliff from which she’s fallen. The
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