
1949: During the coldest winter Seattle has seen in decades, pregnant sixteen-year-old Brigid Ryan arrives at Fairmile, a home for "fallen women" run by the Catholic Church on a remote island in Puget Sound. She and her baby will disappear before the snow melts. 2013:...


"Almost every graduating class had a girl who disappeared ..." A long-closed home for "fallen women" is the site of horrors old and new in this historical thriller from the author of The Botanist's Daughter. 1949: During the coldest winter Seattle...

"Almost every graduating class had a girl who disappeared ..." A long-closed home for "fallen women" is the site of horrors old and new in this historical thriller from the author of The Botanist's Daughter. 1949: During the coldest winter Seattle...