In 1939, ten-year-old orphan Virginia arrives at her new home Salt Winds, a secluded house on the edge of a beautiful but dangerous marsh. On New Year's Eve 2015, eighty-six-year-old Virginia receives a sign she's been waiting decades for, but her plan to meet her fate in the unforgiving moors outside Salt Winds is complicated by the appearance of a young girl. What leads both to this point is spellbindingly revealed in this atmospheric, haunting novel about love, loyalty, regret, and revenge.