In Arkham, Massachusetts, the line between the haves and the have-nots issteeped in colonial tradition that stretches back over four hundred years. TheDaughters of Arkham, a secret society of wealthy women, stand at the center ofit all. On the surface, their power is assured by blood and money. Beneath it,they hold pacts with strange entities beyond the understanding of mortals.Fourteen-year-old Abigail Thorndike is the scion of the most important family inArkham. When she becomes mysteriously pregnant, she is outcast, left alone tounravel the secrets of her haunted town. Abby must risk her status, herhumanity, and the fate of her unborn child to stand against her family and therising darkness to defend the very town that shunned her.