Author: staceyhalls

A Sunday Times bestseller! Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything . . . London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate newborn at the Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the daughter she has never known. Dreading the worst, that she has died in care, she is astonished to discover someone pretending to be Bess has already claimed her. Her … claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl–and why. Less than a mile from Bess’s poor lodgings, in a…

“Assured and alluring, this beautiful tale of women, witchcraft, and the fight against power is a delight” (New York Times bestselling author Jessie Burton). In 17th-century England, a pregnant noblewoman and a young midwife must protect each other as witchcraft trials come to Pendle Hill.