![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Matt is studying the life of Rebecca Sparrow, and his research reveals strange echoes of Rebecca's story in the lives of her descendants. Jenny and Will soon join her, as does Will's brother, Matt, a reclusive scholar, and Stella's best friend, the audacious, jaded Juliet Aronson. When Stella asks her father, Will, to try to prevent a death, he ends up becoming a murder suspect, and her mother sends her to live with Elinor at Cake House, her home in Unity, until the scandal dies down. Brainy and unpopular, Stella chafes at her mother's invasive omniscience while trying to make sense of her own powers. Jenny is recently divorced from Will Avery, a charming but erratic and hard-drinking music teacher she and Stella live in Boston, where Stella is a charity case at the exclusive Rabbit School for girls. And Jenny's 13-year-old daughter, Stella, knows how and when people will die. ![]() Her estranged daughter, Jenny Avery, can divine other people's dreams. Elinor, the dying matriarch of the Sparrow family, has the ability to discern liars. Her present-day descendants possess extraordinary gifts. In colonial Unity, Mass., Rebecca Sparrow was tried as a witch and drowned because of her physical inability to feel pain. Magic is once again knitted into the fabric of a Hoffman novel, this one revolving around a New England family living with the legacy of witchcraft. ![]()
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