TidelandsThis New York Times bestseller from one of the great storytellers of our time (San Francisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, living in a dangerous time for a woman to be different. A country at war A king beheaded A woman with a dangerous secret On Midsummers Eve, Alinor waits in the church graveyard, hoping to encounter the ghost of her missing husband and thus confirm his death.