Daughters of Temperance Hobbs, Katherine Howe

In the long awaited follow up to The Physik Book of Deliverance Dane, Connie Goodwin is now a respected professor applying for tenure at Northwestern. Her days are filled with lectures and grading, her nights are filled with Sam. Thesis advisor to Zazi, Connie’s world turns upside down when she realizes that she's pregnant. 

Her mother, Grace reminds her of the old family curse, which now threatens Sam. Connie knows she can't leave him, it would be like cutting off one of her limbs.

With Zazi's help Connie searches for the ancestor whose powerful alchemy protected her husband in the hopes that it can save Sam too.