Product Description: Aemilia Bassano Lanier is beautiful and accomplished, but her societal conformity ends there. She frequently cross-dresses to escape her loveless marriage and gain freedoms only men enjoy, but a chance encounter with a ragged, little-known poet named Shakespeare changes everything...read more

Daughters of theWitching Hill brings history to life in a vivid and wrenching account of a family sustained by love as they try to survive the hysteria of a witch-hunt. Bess Southerns, an impoverished widow living in Pendle Forest, is haunted by visions and gains a reputation as a cunning woman. Drawing on the Catholic folk magic of her youth, Bess heals the sick and foretells the future. As she ages, she instructs her granddaughter, Alizon, in her craft, as well as her best friend, who ultimately turns to dark magic. When a peddler suffers a stroke after exchanging harsh words with Alizon, a local magistrate, eager to make his name as a witch finder, plays neighbors and family members against one another until suspicion and paranoia reach frenzied heights. Sharratt interweaves well-researched historical details of the 1612 Pendle witch-hunt with a beautifully imagined story of strong women, family, and betrayal. Daughters of the Witching Hill is a powerful novel of intrigue and revelation.

Raised by a father who secretly trained her in the physician's art, Hannah Powers journeys to seventeenth-century colonial Maryland to be with her sister, married off to a distant cousin after a series of sexual improprieties, and falls in love with her brother-in-law despite her feeling that he is lying about her sister's fate. Reader's Guide available. Original.

As the relationship between Penny and her mother, Barbara, worsens, Penny goes to work for a woman who has fled a bad marriage and intends to raise her child on her grandfather's farm, her presence changing both Penny's and Barbara's lives forever.