In this 'electrifying' debut (Kathryn Harlan), a former child medium is called home to help protect her niece from possession, forcing a reckoning with the traumas of her past and the magic she left behind. When thirty-four-year-old Alice Haserot learns she's pregnant, she isn't sure if she wants to keep the baby. Long estranged from her family, Alice is haunted by memories of her own abusive mother. Not only that, but her lineage is burdened by a curse, one that she's almost managed to convince herself she no longer believes in: Girls for the gifts, boys for the grave. Alice's gift--channeling ghosts--has often felt like its own curse. Is she willing to risk passing on a similar fate to a daughter, or one even worse to a son? Amidst this internal reckoning Alice's sister Bronwyn tracks her down. One of Bronwyn's daughters is possessing the other and she delivers an ultimatum to Alice: come home to free them, or I'll tell our mother where you are. When Alice agrees, she finds herself
