In 1874, in the wake of the War, twelve-year-old ConaLee finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia. There, far from family, a beloved neighbour, and the mountain home they knew, they try to reclaim their lives. There they get swept up in the life of the facility - the mysterious man they call the Night Watch; the orphan child called Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution.
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