The Second Heartbeat

Mercy Aldenn has buried two daughters, both dead within hours of birth, and now carries a third child she fears will meet the same fate. In the witch-haunted Massachusetts Bay Colony of 1692, her magistrate husband angles for power while something ancient stirs inside her womb—something with its own heartbeat, patient and wrong. With the village midwife arrested for witchcraft and her own name creeping onto the court's lips, Mercy must uncover the monstrous covenant binding her husband's bloodline before her baby draws its first breath.