In 1612, 17 year old Fleetwood Shuttleworth is the mistress of Gawthorpe Hall in Lancashire. She is pregnant for the fourth time, the previous three ending in miscarriages and stillbirths. She has discovered a letter to her husband from a doctor saying if his wife becomes pregnant again she will not survive. Desperate, she seeks the help of Alice Gray, a midwife whose tinctures and herbs offer Fleetwood some relief. But Alice becomes caught up in the local witch trials, and Fleetwood risks everything to […]