Nore Roberts didn't ask for a new life, but now that her mom is gone and her dad is newly married, she has to make Shadow Grove her new home. Shocked by her stepmother's youth and beauty-and by the unsettling feeling that something sinister lies behind the pretty face-Nore digs into her stepfamily's past, and uncovers a deadly history. Can Nore expose her stepmother's dark secret before an old and evil southern magic swallows her up?