A Line Written in Death

A LINE WRITTEN IN DEATH

Every seventh generation, one daughter must die before her thirtieth birthday.

Sarah Carmichael, a Boston genealogist, has built her career tracing other people's family histories. But when her grandmother dies and leaves her a cryptic journal, Sarah uncovers a horrifying pattern in her own bloodline. For over three centuries, one woman in the Carmichael family has died violently at twenty-nine.

With seventeen days until her own thirtieth birthday, Sarah learns the terrible truth. If she dies, the curse is satisfied. If she survives, dozens of her blood relatives-including children-will die in agony over three days, claimed by something no one can see or stop.

As her family fractures under the weight of an impossible choice, Sarah races to uncover what really happened to Thomasin Carmichael, the Salem woman whose desperate bargain started it all.

To break the curse, Sarah must decide how many lives her own is worth-and whether a line written in death can ever be rewritten.