The Myth Keeper

A young woman gifted with magical insight searches for the missing daughter of a gentry family on England's wild Cornish coast in this romantic adventure from the author of The Sea Child. When a strange, disembodied voice deep in the copper mine tells twenty-year-old Florence to run, she obeys. The next thing she knows, she’s the only survivor of a cave-in that has killed six of her fellow miners. After a newspaper claims that the mine’s magical fairies, known as piskies, warned her, local landowner Thomas Rosevear offers Florence the position of companion to his mother, who believes piskies took Thomas’s twin sister Jane when she was a free-spirited thirteen-year-old. It’s a chance for Florence to escape her grueling job in the mines, but there is a catch. An Arctic explorer and man of science, Thomas doesn’t believe in folklore, but wants Florence to pretend to talk with piskies to help his mother come to terms with the loss of her daughter. As Florence spins tales for the forbidding Mrs. Rosevear at the family’s crumbling estate on the windswept Cornish coast, candles go out without a breeze, knitting is worked by unseen hands, and mysterious laughter sounds in empty rooms.