Her chest tightens, her heart speeding up. The kitchen is chaos. She steps on something hard and looks down. Toy dinosaurs are scattered everywhere. But her son is nowhereher baby boy is gone. The police arrive. She cant look at her husband. Instead, she studies the network of lines on her shaking hands. Then her phone beeps with a voice message. Listen to it on speaker, says the detective. A womans voice fills the air. Im assuming this is the Andrea Gately listed as a contact on the Missing Children of the World website. Im calling to let you know that Ive given your details to the police. Why are you using a picture of my son on a missing childrens website? Why are you using it and where did you get it?

Witchcraft For Wayward Girls By Grady Hendrix

a perfect horror for our imperfect age.” – The New York TimesAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAYThey were never girls, they were witches . . . .They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they're sent to the Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, frightened, and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There's Rose, a hippie who insists she's going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby's father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and every...

Witchcraft For Wayward Girls By Grady Hendrix

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