Cordelia Bone's meticulously crafted life and career in Dallas are crashing
down around her thanks to a philandering husband with criminal debts.
When her older, carefree sister, Eustace - a cannabis grower in Boulder, calls
to inform her the great aunt they never met has died and they must travel to a
small town in Connecticut to deal with the estate, she sees an opportunity to
unload the house and save herself.
But once there, the sisters learn they are getting much more than they
bargained for. The Victorian mansion they stand to inherit is bound in a
dynasty trust controlled by their late aunt's aging attorney who insists they
inhabit the house and retain it but keeps them in the dark about the peculiar
rituals of their ancestors. Not to mention a sexy, tattooed groundskeeper with
a shrouded past who refuses to leave the carriage house and a crypt full of
dead relatives looming at the property line.
As both women grapple with their current predicament, they come face to face
with a haunting family secret, the truth of what happened to their mother, and
the enemy that's been stalking them from the shadows for generations. In a
twisting torrent of terror and blood, the sisters must uncover the power within
them to heal their fractured relationship, reverse their mysteriously declining
health, and claim the lineage they wanted to escape but now must embrace if
they are to survive at Bone Hill.
Ava Morgyn grew up falling in love with all the wrong characters in all the
wrong stories, then studied English Writing & Rhetoric at St. Edward's
University. She is a lover of witchcraft, tarot, and powerful women with bad
reputations, and she currently resides in Houston with her family, surrounded
by antiques and dog hair. When not at her laptop spinning darkly hypnotic
tales, she writes for her blog on child loss, hunts for vintage treasures, and
reads the darkest books she canfind. She is the author of YA novels
Resurrection Girls and The Salt in Our Blood.
St. Martin's Press
On Sale: Oct 3/23
5.38 x 8.25 • 416 pages
9781250835437 • $24.00 • pb
Fiction / Fantasy / Paranormal