"Since time immemorial the Haddesley family has tended the cranberry bog. In exchange the bog
sustains them. The staunch seasons of their lives are governed by a strict covenant that is
renewed each generation with the ritual sacrifice of their patriarch and in return the bog
produces a "bog-wife." Brought to life from vegetation this woman is meant to carry on the
family line. But when the bog fails--or refuses--to honor the bargain the Haddesleys a group
of discordant siblings still grieving the mother who mysteriously disappeared years earlier
face an unknown future. Middle child Wenna summoned back to the dilapidated family manor just
as her marriage is collapsing believes the Haddesleys must abandon their patrimony. Her
siblings are not so easily persuaded. Eldest daughter Eda de facto head of the household
seeks to salvage the compact by desecrating it. Younger son Percy retreats into the wilderness
in a dangerous bid to summon his own bog-wife. And as youngest daughter Nora takes desperate
measures to keep her warring siblings together fledgling patriarch Charlie uncovers a
disturbing secret that casts doubt over everything the family has ever believed about itself"--
