"A riveting, eerie novel about two families caught up in a centuries-old curse. Sarah Toomey is afraid she's losing her mind. Ever since her mother's death, she's found herself acting upon strange urges, losing track of time, and coming to in odd places. There's a dark force that seems to be haunting her, and leaving death in its wake. Yvonne Howard has reinvented herself. After years of unhappiness as a guard in a women's prison she's finally pursuing her passion for cooking. But when an ex-inmate reaches out and asks her to investigate the inmate's brother's death, then ends up killed herself, Yvonne is pulled into the same dangerous world Sarah is inhabiting-a world of chaos, death, and a curse that dates back to the Civil War"--