The Whitney women of Salem, Massachusetts, are renowned for reading the future in the patterns of lace. But the future doesn't always bring good news— as Towner Whitney knows all too well. When she was just fifteen her gift brought her whole world crashing down. She predicted—and then witnessed—something so horrific that she vowed never to read lace again, and fled her home and family for good. Salem is a place of ghosts for Towner, and she swore she would never return.

Yet family is a powerful tie. So it is that fifteen years later, Towner finds herself back in Salem. Her beloved Great Aunt Eva has suddenly disappeared—and when you've lived a life like Eva's, that could mean real trouble. But Salem is wreathed in sickly shadows and whispered half-memories. It's fast becoming clear that the ghosts of Towner's fractured past have not been brought fully into the light. And with them comes the threat of terrifying new disaster..
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