"Salt Sugar & Secrets"

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Mystic Cove, Maine. Spring, 1982. The bell over the bakery door rings differently the morning Daniel Hollister walks in. He says he's a graduate student. He has letterhead, a tape recorder, and the politest smile Margaret Bishop has ever seen. He also has a photograph of her great-great-grandmother. And the family book that's been hidden behind it for three hundred years. Margaret is seventeen and a half years old. She's been planning to leave Mystic Cove since she was fourteen. Now her mother is bolting the front door at five o'clock, Henrietta Marsh has moved into the second-floor bedroom with a shotgun under her cot, and the cat won't stop staring at the pantry window. A charming stranger with a photograph he shouldn't have. A grandmother who locks a door she's never locked. An aunt with a shotgun and a meadow to cross. A grimoire that has to be hidden before sunrise — and a seventeen-year-old girl learning, the hard way, that some things are worth staying home for. This is how it began.