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 HereA
deeply atmospheric story about ancestral magic an unsolved murder and a second chance at true
loveONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: She ReadsEmery 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.
