Sacrifice: A Novel: 11 (The Nevernight Chronicle 11)

In this masterful debut that starts off as a mystery and becomes much more Tora Hamilton is an outsider at her new home on the rocky windswept Shetland Islands a hundred miles from the northeastern tip of Scotland. Though her husband grew up here its the first time hes been back in twenty years. Digging in the peat on their new property Tora unearths a human body at first glance a centuries-old bog body interesting but not uncommon. But realizing that the body is in fact much newer that the womans heart has been cut out and that she was killed within a few days of bearing a child Tora herself an obstetrician becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to her―even when the police her colleagues and eventually her husband warn her against getting involved.. Sacrifice is a bone-chilling spellbinding debut about secrets worth killing for that will grip readers from its beginning to its startling end.