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The women of Morag's family have been the keepers of tradition for generations, their skills and knowledge passed down from woman to woman, kept close and hidden from public view, official condemnation and religious suppression. In late-1970s St. Andrews, demand for Morag's services are still there, but requested as stealthily as ever, for even in 20th-century Scotland, witchcraft is a dangerous art to practice. When newly widowed Rosalind arrives from California to tend her ailing uncle, she is drawn unsuspecting into a new world she never knew existed.

Hidden View is a short novel set in the Vermont agrarian landscape, a story of Fern Hartshorn, unexpectedly pregnant at 19. Marrying an older man she barely knows, Fern begins her adult life on an isolated and hardscrabble farm named Hidden View. Shortly after the birth of her daughter, the future of the farm is jeopardized by a family dispute over ownership between her husband and his brother, Lucien. Unwillingly, Fern is torn between the two brothers, bound to Hal by marriage, child, and a modicum of economic stability, and to Lucien by companionship and a deepening desire. 

In these seven tales, gathered from stories previously published in literary journals, Suzanne d’Corsey evokes the transcendent power of the wild places and the human heart. In these and other stories, d’Corsey draws us into the crossroads of myth, romance, and destiny.