Three generations of women struggle with a curse unfairly placed on their ancestor in this gothic story of magic,queer loveand mother-daughter relationshipsperfect for fans of Spells for Forgetting and Practical Magic. The Cole women are cursed. Each generation will birth a daughterlose their loveandas surely as the tide beats against the rocky shoretake her own life by giving herself to the sea. For generationsthe Cole women have lived as outcastsmaintaining a lighthouse on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire. Ever since their ancestor was accused of witchcraft and cast into the sea hundreds of years priorthe islanders have ostracized the Colesdistrusting their rumored magic and their control of the lighthouse. Despite their mistreatmentthe Cole women are compelled to remain on the island because they know that if a Cole woman does not light the beacon on Juniper Islandanyone who is out at sea will be drowned. Out of guilt and obligationthe Cole women live out their solitary lives on the islandknowing someday their recompense for protecting the people from the sea will be to die in the sea themselves. Told in three interwoven timelines in the late twentieth centuryThe Curse of the Cole Women unravels the lives of three women who struggle with their relationships with each other as they contend with the reality of their fatesΓÇöis it truly a curseor is it generational madness that drives Cole women to the sea? Readers will be swept into this evocative and moving story about challenging misogynyfinding communityand struggling with fate.