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When her mother goes missing, a young woman uncovers the secrets beneath her protected community. The women asked: How are they safe? . And Tamsen Nightingale said: In this red grove, no woman can be harmed. No violence may come upon her. No injury to her flesh from the flesh of another. . -- The Story of the Sisters, Welcoming Incantation . The Red Grove is a special place, protected. Some say a spell was cast by the community's founder, Tamsen Nightingale. Some say the mountain lions who stalk the nearby hills guard its mysteries and its people. Some say the mighty redwoods keep them safe. . Yet Luce's mother, Gloria, has gone missing. A man came seeking answers among the Red Grove's mysteries -- a connection to the beyond -- and died. And then Gloria vanished.