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Synopsis
When successful New York surgeon Tora Hamilton and her husband, Duncan, have trouble conceiving a child, they move to his ancestral home in the Shetland Islands with hopes of adopting and of putting her string of miscarriages behind her. Tora is an outsider at her new home on the rocky, windswept island and though her husband grew up here, it’s the first time he’s been back in twenty years. Digging in the peat on their new property, Tora unearths a human body, at first glance a centuries old bog body, interesting but not uncommon. But realizing that the body is in fact much newer, that the woman’s heart has been cut out, and that she was killed within a few days of bearing a child, Tora, herself an obstetrician, becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to her—even when the police, her colleagues, and eventually her husband warn her against getting involved.