Set in the valley of Deepclough in the Cotswolds, England, in 1811-1813, Elissa Wyatt is the story of a woman who grows beyond her given roles of daughter and sister, becoming in addition a lover and a seeker. She is meanwhile stalked by darkness in her own home and on the margins of the land, the land where the garden stands: the garden, with its song, its peace, and its fruitfulness. When the good suddenly seem to be evil, when the honest lie,...